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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: angela christopher <angela_christopher2000@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:59:59 +0100 (BST)
Subject: PLEASE URGENT ATTENTION NEEDED


Dear VICTIMNAME.

Greetings from Angela i am from Liberia West Africa, how are things with you and your entire family, i hope all is well with them? well i am contacting you in respect of my consignment (funds) that worth $14.3million USD that is right here in Ghana, all i want you to do now is to help me received it in your country on my behalf as my foreign partner and beneficiary and also to help me invest it in a very profiting venture that will be overseen by you as the chief executive of any venture we decided to invest the funds on.

Meanwhile, i have met with the shipping company that will do the shippment of the consignment to you in your country and i was told that the consignment should be registered in your name as the receiver and beneficiary over there, please i would suggest you forward all your details (international passport or drivers license as well as your home/office address) across to me to enable them go about the registeration in your favour.

Please get back to me at once to enable them get things done as soon as possible to enable the consignment(funds) leave for your country and when it arrives i will then make arrangements to meet with you to see how the funds will be invested and how best i can be of help. Please get back to me at once, all i want is your trust and honesty, God bless you.

Best Regards,
Angela Christopher.

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