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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:
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "huge deposit" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "your country for safe keeping" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "monrovia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  • elizz_200patrick@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Elizabeth" <elizz_patrick@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: elizz_200patrick@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:19:18 +0100
Subject: Very very urgent

Elizabeth Patrick,
C/o Eglise(Catholic church )
Liberty Scape 1,
Dakar Senegal.
Good Day.
I know this mail will come to you as a surprise.Nevertheless I am M.s Elizabeth Patrick, aged 49 years, the wife of Eugene Patrick, Chief Security Officer and Aide-de–camp to the exiled president Charles Tailor of Liberia,I got your contact from the Ecowas Infomation Center here in Dakar Senegal west Africa and i was very intrested to contact you over this issue.
As a result of the on-going problem in my country. I am saddled with problems of my ill-health protracted diabetes and high blood pressure which is getting of increase in this recent times,more importantly getting a trust worthy individual abroad to receive the sum of US$9.2million)Nine millilon tow hundred thousand united state Dollars.on our behalf which we intend to invest in real Estate and industria production.
Due to this crises off, resently in my city Monrovia our home town, I managed to sneak my self and my only Son John 23 years of age, and two other of my daugtre. out of Monrovia to Dakar senegal for safety. We were sneaked into Dakar Senegal through the land boarder by the help of some government militant group.
After the killing of my husband by the rebels, wedecided to come down here to Dakar senegal to secure the fund deposit wish my late husband deposited with my Son name,and to further look for a trust worthy individual abroad to receive these deposit which has being deposited here with the ECOWAS DIPLOMTIC SECURITY COMPANY? Dakar Senegal before he was eventually killed by the heartless rebels.
I feel confident therefore to introduce myself to you. based on this problem and our present condition as all our foreign contacts and connections got lost during this crises, all properties burnt by the rebels. I am desperately in need to move and re-locate this huge deposit to your country for safe keeping as this is the only wealth remaining for the future survival and well being of my family.
please. i want you please kindly help me to recived this fund in to any where save enough outside Africa for security and political reasons.i want you to help us claim and retrieved these fund from the ECOWAS DIPLOMTIC SECURITY COMPANY?and Transfer it in to your personal account in your country for urgent investment purposes of any profitable ventures.
If you can be of an assistance to us, i will pleased to offer you 25% of the total fund. while i have also set aside 15% of the total fund for any expenses incur by you during this process.Please endavour to email Me back for further clarifications over this issue.God bless you as you respond to my plead for Assistance. I await your soonest response through my private
mailbox: elizz_200patrick@yahoo.com
Your house Addres............................
Your Phone Number .........................
Your Fax Number .............................
N.B. Upon your interest, I will forward you the
security company contact immediately .
Respectfully yours,
Sincerely yours.
Elizabeth Patrick.

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