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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:
  • "the consignment" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "your urgent reply" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "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.
  • johnabalade@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "abalade john" <johnabalade02@livedoor.com>
Reply-To: johnabalade@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 17:50:43 +0530
Subject: I Need Your Assistance


Greetings,

Please, I want you to read this mail carefully and consider my present need
for assistance. My name is Mr. John S.Abalade and I am the man who detained
ex-president of Liberia , MR CHARLES TAYLOR, used in moving out money from
Liberia to all part of the world. I moved out some amount of money worth
$18.5m, which I put in a consignment coupled with a few Art materials with
the help of an Ecomog solders to Accra , Ghana where I deposited the
consignment in a prime security and finance company for safe keeping.

Now, base on the political problem here in Africa, I decided to solicit for
your assistance to help me secure and invest with the fund in any lucrative
business of your choice in your country because I will not want the fund to
be invested here or to live here anymore due to the source of the fund to
avoid leakage of information. I am contacting you now to help me receive the
consignment there in your country on my behalf as the present beneficiary of
the consignment due to the fact that I am still in hiding since the present
government of Liberia has declared me wanted and I believe that soon the
Liberia Government will want to know account of the fund.

As soon as you indicate your interest to help me claim the consignment, I
will request you to send to me your full details to enable me submit to the
security company where the consignment is deposited and as well introduce
you to them as my foreign partner who are to receive the consignment on my
behalf. Again I will send to you the deposit certificate which the security
company issued to me at the time I made the deposit for your prove.

It's after the claim that I will direct you how you will send some money to
me from the consignment for me to process my traveling document to come over
to your country for the investment purpose.
However, I will offer you 25% of the principal capital before investment and
10% of the net profit after investment which you are going to handle for me.
You can reach me with my private email address : johnabalade@yahoo.com
Your full name_________________________
Your address__________________________
Your country___________________________
Your age______________________________
Your occupation________________________
Your Phone number______________________

Awaiting your urgent reply.

Thanks and God bless.

Mr. John Sherrif Abalade.

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