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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: MISS DEBORAH WILLIAMS <de_deborah0@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: deborahm_willim@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:59:29 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Dearest trusted one,

Dearest trusted one,
Based on the trust and God's divine guidance that I have this great oppoutunity linking up to you, though we have not meet before but I believe that one have to risk in confiding his secret to succeed sometimes in life.

My name is Deborah Williams, 20 years old undergraduate.I am only daughter of chief/Mrs Goerge Williams a major cocoa exporter cum politician.I am native of Lorma in western part of liberia,Africa.

I was born out of tragic fate.my mother died from cancer when i was only 4 years old,my father nurtured me with great care and love before he met his own untimely death on the way coming back from business trip from overseas,on his arrival to the airport his driver went to drove him back home
on the way they have a fatal car accident which killied his driver at spot while my father spent 3 painful days at hospital before dying.my uncle seized all my father's companies and properties because of our traditionl believe that i'm a woman.I was left with nothing and dropped out of shool
because of finacial difficulties and my uncle's wicked attitude.

my father told me a deep secret on his sick bed which I want to share with you in a full confidentiality.He deposited a huge sum of (18.5million) Dollers in one of reputable bank in Ivory Coast because of polictical instability in our country Liberia without the knowledge of my uncle.presently
i'm in ivory coast since the civil war broke out in liberia as a refugee in one of missionary home while my uncle flew to the london with his children.although i have contacted the bank they comfirmed the deposit.

Dearest all I want you to do for me is to step forward as my foreign partner to the bank so that the money will be retrieve and transfered into your bank account ,I have all the neccesary information to back you up.i will sincerely give you 12% out of the money,5% for any expenses incurred
during the transaction and the rest will be used for any investement preferred by you in your country.

I am pleading to you with the name of Almighty God to help me out of this problem.coincidentally Ivory coast is now having it's own political unrest too,

I am kindly waiting for your soonest response.

MAY GOD BLESS YOU.

All my love,
Deborah Williams.




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