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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "former president of liberia" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "monrovia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: sonia adams <sonia_adams7401@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: s_adam74@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:27:41 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Miss Sonia Adams



From: Miss Sonia Adams,
Monrovia Liberia,
Dear Friend

I am Miss Sonia Adams, residence in the above

Address, I m' 23 years of age, I'm the only daughter

of the late Mr and Mrs Walter Adams. My father was

Gold Agents in Monrovia (Liberia).Before he was murdered

By Mr Charles Taylor the former president of Liberia.

Before his death he called me on his bedside and told me about

The one metallic box containing 220KG Alluvial Gold

Dust purity worth 22carat he deposited with one

Interior Security Company in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire

And he handed me all the vital documents of the Gold

As his only survival beloved daughter and he used my

Name as the next of kin in depositing the Metallic

Box. He advise me that I should seek for a foreign

Partner in a country of my choice where I will sale

The goods and invest the money.

I humbly seek for your assistance, to help me

Receive the Gold, sale it and help me invest the money

in a good business, and to serve as my guardian, since

I am still a student, to make arrangement for me to

Come over to your country to further my education.

Thanks as you made up your mind to help an orphan like

me.

Please, I urge you to make this transaction a

Confidentiality within your heart for security

Purposes and i will forward to you all the vital

Documents of the deposited Gold.

Yours sincerely,

Sonia Adams


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