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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:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "monrovia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: john/rita dagogo <john_rita27@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <john_rita2007@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 20:27:52 +0200
Subject: Dearest one,




Dearest one,

We beg for your assistance to help us claim and transfer a very important amount of money deposited in a financial institution by our late father.

We are natives of Bo town, in the Southern region of Sierra Leone. We are twins and are 19 years old. We got your contact through a reliable source in our quest for a foreign partner who will assist us in claiming our assets.
Our father was the Chairman and C.E.O of DEXTRON INTL. AGENCY LTD, a consultant firm based in Monrovia, the capital city of Liberia. My father and our mother and my senior brother were attacked and all assasinated by hired assasin in our residence in Monrovia, the capital city of LIBERIA on the 11 july 2003.Before this incident, my father had alwayd revealed to late our senior brother of this very deposit that runs into millions of united states dollars that he made in a financial instiution in Côte d'Ivoire which we have photocopies of the documents.

We have carefully searched and made contact with the financial instiution where this deposited was made and notified them of our intention, and they have accepted to release this asset factually to us on the condition that we have to present our late father's foreign partner. This is due to the fact that our father stated in an greement entered between him and the financial instiution that his foreign partner shall be the authorized person to make claim of this asset on the behalf of his children. This is the reason we are seeking you help as we wish to introduce you to the institution as our late father foreign partner. In the documents that we have with us concerning the deposit; there is no indicated by our late father as his foreign partner.


We shall forward all documents concerning this deposit which we have at our disposal upon your declaration of your willingness to assist us.

Please kindly contact us as soon as possible through the above telephone number for further details concerning this issue.

We shall be very grateful to hear from you soon.

Yours sincerely,

JOHN and RITA DAGOGO.


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