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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "abidjan" (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.
  • suuuwilliams2007@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Sussan Williams <sussanwilliams18@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <dwilliams20072007@yahoo.it>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 14:35:16 +0400
Subject: From Susana Williams



From Susana Williams
1bd Macory camp 12,
Abidjan Cote D Ivoire.
E-mail: suuuwilliams2007@yahoo.it

Dear Friend

Kindly permit me the opportunity to narrate my ordeal to you and as such seek you understand in my proposal to you as below. After going through your profile, I decided to contact you for you to help me claim what belongs to me.

I am Dena Susana Williams the only survived Daughter of the special Adviser on Finance and Economic planning to Mr. Charles Taylor, restwhile president of Liberia. My father Williams Paul the Special Adviser to Charles Taylor was killed In the renewed war alongside my mother and my only sister and brothers all this Because of the tussle for power in Liberia as reported by international media during the heat of the war in Liberia recently, immediately the opposition group killed my father, the Nigerian president offered Asylum to Charles Taylor with some of his [[Charles Taylor] aides and Loyalist to be in Nigeria as a, Peace Ma to the Liberia Crisis and the American president did approve of the above as he stated during his five working day visit to Africa upon this, I succeeded in coming to Abidjan Cote D' Ivory where I am presently as a refugee in the refugee camp in Abidjan.

The above because of the serious war in Liberia and all my father's houses, properties burnt and his bank accounts frozen by the Liberia Warriors who have taken over power.

However, my father told me of some fund he deposited in a security trust service company ABIDJAN COTE D IVOIRE before his death and he handed over all the document and information to me, which are with me here in Cote D'Ivoire.

The total amount inside is US $12.3 Million and this fund is what I need you at this point is your acceptance to help me claim the box deposited by my late father.

I also require your utmost sincerity and faithfulness in working with me to get the box claimed and the funds deposited in your account while I meet with you in your country on completion of the transaction to get my share and invest it in a viable business over there based on your advise and for me to start a new life alone as an Orphan.

You are to respond to me urgently; Once again I solicit for your understanding cooperation and urgent response.

Please, help me, I am in pains here. And reply me to my private email as below E-mail: suuuwilliams2007@yahoo.it

Yours in need,
Dena Susan Williams
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