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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:
  • "ecowas " (the name of a person or institution often appearing 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.
  • @myway.com

Fraud email example:

From: "mary amoudoI" <mary_7mary200@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mary_8mary200@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:46:58 +0200
Subject: please reply this information


Helle My Dear
I am mary amoudoI. from Liberia, my late father mr Sani amoudol was killed during the on going war in Liberia.
On one cold evening when we were relaxing in our house in Hebel town in Liberia, the rabels entered my father house and went straight to his room shot him on his leg as he was trying to escape through the fence of the house. Befor they turn to me and my sister and forced us to rape after they began to trace my father.
My father was rushed to the government hospital for treatment, it was there he now disclose to me that because he was the head of the Finance Department of FierStone Rubber Plantation at this hour he decide to tell me where he deposited some money in ecowas dilpomatic security company.
Is Only me and his lawyer know where this money was kept, please your urgent responses is highly needed.
All i need is for you to help me to transfer this money and to come over there to meet you for business planning if you still insisted. please contact me direct to my box mary_22mary200 @myway.com
mary amoudoI

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