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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "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: "stella dickson" <stdickson18@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: stdickson0001@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:48:25 +0000
Subject: From Stella

Good Day,

I am Miss Stella K.Dickson from Liberia. I am 19 yrs old and my juniour
brother David is 17 years old. We lost our both parents during the Liberian
civil war which ended recently. Our father was a gold marchant and a member
of the serving directors of the Liberian gold minning board until his death
.

He was assassinated during the heat of the war and i was rescued along with
my juniour brother by the ECOMOG soldiers. Ever before the death of our
parents,our daddy called us and intimaded us of the foreign deposit he made
with a security company in Cote D'Ivoire a neighbouring country.He tolds us
that he made the deposit outside our country due to it's instability and
instructed us to use the money wisely incase of any eventuality which
eventually occured and claimed his life and our mummy.

He gave us the deposit certificate of the money and warned us to be extra
careful with the money because he deposited it as a family valuable before
the officials of the security company for security reasons.

Now we want to enquire if we can confide in you to assist us to retrieve the
money from the security company and help us to invest it into a lucrative
business in your country while we continue our education.

The money deposited is Four Million Dollars cash($4.000,000.00) .
Please if you are willing to assist me and my only brother David, indicate
your interest in replying soonest and assure us of total confidenciality.
kindly repy me as soon as you recieve the mail.

Your Faithfully,
Stella/David

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