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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • afred_omar@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MRS AFREDLEN OMAR" <afred_oma11@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: afred_oma4@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 13:41:31 +0200
Subject: MRS AFREDLEN OMAR

Dear Executive ,

There is a change of policy in our Government. The newly elected
president,
Mrs Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia, having vowed to tackle
corruption in the country has sacked all the entire staffs of FEDERAL
MINISTRY
OF FINANCE. She has also ordered that no one should leave the shores of
the
country while our accounts are being investigated. I need your
assistance,
I am Mrs Afredlen Omar, from Liberia and the Director of Foreign
Operations of
the Ministry.

There are concealments of fund which I would want you to assist me
transfer
into a secret account. We have been banned from travelling out side the
country
pending the out come of our accounts that are being investigated.
Please I have
the sum of $11m in a bank in Europe which I would want you to assist me
transfer
out.

I would not know the extent the investigation would go. You will be
adequately
compensated after the transfer. Please this requires urgency and
secrecy.
I need your assistance to avoid seizure of this fund. I have made the
arrangements
and all I need is for you to provide an account where the money would
be transfered.
There is no risk in this please but I want the money transfered before
the investigation
extends to Europe.

Please get back to me as soon as possible.
afred_omar@excite.com
Sincerely yours
Mrs Afredlen Omar

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