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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:
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "stay blessed" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• 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.
  • agnesadams11702@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "AGNES ADAMS" <adams_agnes4@klikni.cz>
Reply-To: agnesadams11703@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 19:57:28 +0100
Subject: FROM MRS AGNES ADAMS AND KID


FROM MRS AGNES ADAMS AND KID

PLEASE LET ALL YOUR CORRESPONDENCE BE ON MY PERSONAL AND ONLY EMAIL
ACCOUNT
agnesadams11702@yahoo.com.hk


Dear Beloved Friend

This business proposal to you is strictly confidential, with due
respect.

Sorry at this perceived confusion or stress may have receiving this
letter from me, Since we have not known ourselves or met previously.
Despite that,I am constrained to write you this letter because of the
urgency of it.By way of self introduction, I am Mrs.Agnes Adams, the
wife of late Brigadier - Gen.Zamani Adams former ECOMOG ARMY COMMANDER
West African peacekeeping force in Liberia who died in the Liberia
civil disturbance [War]. My daughter and I is trapped in obnoxious
custom and traditional norms.

We have suffered maltreatment and untold hardship in the hands of my
late husband's family, simply because I did not bear a male child [heir
apparent] for my late husband. By tradition, all that my late husband
had, [wealth] belongs to his brothers/family. And myself is to be
remarried by his immediate younger brother which I
vehemently refused. They have taken all that I suffered with my husband
to acquire including treasures, houses and his bank particular seized
by them.

I wanted to escape to your country with my only child on exile, but
again they conspired and stole my international passport and other
traveling document to further frustrate me.
Thank God, two weeks ago, I received Key Text Code from a BANK IN ONE OF THE
AMERICA
CONTINENT that my late husband deposited U.S $9.5 Million cash
with this BANK. It has therefore, become very necessary and urgent

to contact someone, a foreigner like you to help me receive/secure
these funds overseas in a reliable bank Account (presumably an empty
Bank Account, if available) and to help invest it on our behalf as
well,while we find a way of getting out to meet with you in your country.
These funds are kept on an "OPEN BENEFICIARY MANDATE"with the BANK IN USA to
avoid
detection, seizure or diversion.

Ihave had several telephone discussions with the Director of the
BANK, who has express willingness to help me on
meeting the company's demands.

This is why I have contacted you to help save me and my only child to
receive these funds on our behalf. But, you would need to give me
sufficient assurance that if you help me, you would not divert the funds.

Me and my child have resolved to give you 30% of the total sum and 10%
set aside for any expenses that occure by you will be refunded back
to you. For this is all me and my child have got to live on.


Please, I have reposed my confidence in you and hope you will not
disappoint me. I look forward to your urgent response, including your full
mailling address indicate your private phone / mobile numbers and
also your fax number for easier communication.


Please note that this project is 100% risk free but you must keep it
very secret and confidential with strong assurance that you will not
let me down at all.

NB: The secret codes and the Pin Number for this fund are safely kept
with me which I can give you as soon as you express desire to help
me.

Stay blessed.

MRS AGNES ADAMS

PLEASE LET ALL YOUR CORRESPONDENCE BE ON MY PERSONAL AND ONLY EMAIL ACCOUNT

agnesadams11702@yahoo.com.hk

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