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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:
  • "hundred thousand u.s dollars" (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)
  • ",500,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +221768644126 (Senegal, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • rev_john@rocketmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: dylan white <dwhiteleeds@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:57:56 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: suspect email from Senegal/Liberia


I recieved the email below yesterday:

Hello dear
how
are you today also with your health,my name is Nina Mendy I'm a good
looking girl with love and respect I'm seeking for a longtime
relationship i got your mail on my way searching for true love i hope
we can move from here i will like you contact me as soon as you can for
more of me and i will scan some of my photo and send for you, i will be
happy to hear from you with love and kiss yours
Nina

I replied, asking why she was contacting me...the reply is shown below:

My Dearest

I
will really like to have a good relationship with you. I promise you
all that makes up a defined and a refined LOVE and I have a special
reason why I decided to contact you. I decided to contact you because
of the urgency of my situation here. I am Miss nina Mendy, 25 years old
girl from Liberia,
the only daughter of late Mr. Mendy Usman who was one time a Senate
speaker of Liberia but killed in the recent political crisis in my
country.

I
am constrained to contact you because of the maltreatment I'm receiving
from my step mother since the death of my father. She planned to take
away all my late father's treasury and properties from me since the
unexpected death of my beloved father. Meanwhile I wanted to escape to
the Europe but she hide away my international passport and other valuable traveling documents. Luckily, she did not discover
where I kept my father’s file which contained important documents. So,
I decided to run to the refugee camp where I'm presently seeking asylum under the United Nations High Commission for the Refugee here in Dakar, Republic of Senegal. I wish to contact
you personally for a long term business relationship and investment
assistance in your country or any-where you might recommend.

My
late father of blessed memory deposited the sum of Six Million, Five
Hundred thousand U.S Dollars (US$6,500,000.00) some-where with my name
as the "next of kin". However, I shall forward you with the necessary
documents on confirmation of your acceptance to assist me receive the
fund in your country for further investments on my behalf. As you will
help me in an investment, and i will like to complete my studies when I
will come over to your country as I was in my 1st year in the
university when the crisis started. It is my intention to compensate
you with 10% of the total money for your services and the balance will
be my investment capital.
This is the reason why I decided to contact you. Please all
communications should be through this email address only for
confidential purposes.

As
soon as I receive your positive response showing your interest, I will
put things into action immediately and will educate you more on the way
you will assist me receive the money. In the light of the above, I
shall appreciate an urgent response indicating your ability and
willingness to handle this transaction sincerely. I am staying at the
female hostel here in the refugee camp. Please, keep this transaction
to your self only. Do not disclose it to any one till the fund (money)
gets to you in your country which I will also come over once the fund
(money) gets to you. I promise you sincerity and honesty over this our
transaction and relationship and will always love you forever. In my
next mail. Bellow is my picture. I expect your honest and earliest
reply. If you want to get me on phone, you please call me through the
reverend-priest of the refugee camp on (+221 768644126),his mail (rev_john@rocketmail.com)
his name is (john olewe), call and tell him you want to speak to Nina
Mendy of Liberia, She is my friend. Bellow is my picture.

please if you will help me do send me your information such as

Name.........................
Age............................
Address......................
Occupation.................
Nationality..................
Phone No....................
Account No..................
so that i will make introduction of your person to the bank as my pointed trustee
for them to start the transfer as soon as i will send you there contact of the bank and all document of the money depositor,from my late father

Yours Sincerely,
Nina mendy.


- Do these guys think we're dumb or what?!?

Dylan White

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