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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:

• This email message is a "dying merchant" scam.
• 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.
  • muhammedmusa22@gmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Muhammed Musa" <musamuham@msn.com>
Reply-To: muhammedmusa22@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:56:44 +0000
Subject: Good day.

Good day Dear,


As you read this, I don't want you to feel sorry for me, because, I believe
everyone will die someday.

My name is Muhammed Musa, a British merchant in Caribbean Island I have been
diagnosed with

esophageal cancer, which was discovered very late, due to my laxity in
carrying for my health. It has defiled all forms of medicine, and right now
I have only about a few months to live, according to medical experts.

I have since lost my power of speech and can only manage to write now; as
that has been the only way I
am able to communicate. I have not particularly lived my life so well, as I
never really cared for anyone not even myself but my business. Though I am
very rich, I was never generous, I was always hostile to people and only
focus on my business as that is the only thing I cared for. But now I regret
all this, as I now know that there is more to life than just wanting
to have or make all the money in the world.


I believe when Almighty gives me a second chance to come to this world I
would live my life a different
way from how I have lived it. Now that I know my time is near, I have willed
and given most of my properties and assets to my immediate and extended
family members and as well as a few close friends.

I want the Almighty to be merciful to me and accept my soul and so, Ihave
decided to give alms to
charity organizations, as I want this to be one of the last good deeds I do
on earth.
So far, I have distributed money to some charity organizations in the
Caribbean Island, London and
Ireland. Now that my health has deteriorated so badly, I cannot do this my
self any more. I once asked
members of my family to close one of my accounts and donate the money, which
I have there to
charity organization in Bulgaria; they refused and kept the money to
themselves.


Hence, I do not trust them anymore, as they seem not to be contended with
what I have left for them. The last of my money that only few of them know
of is the huge cash deposit that I have with a security firm. You may
contact me via muhammedmusa22@gmail.com for further
communications.

I will want you to help me collect this deposit and dispatched it to charity
organizations.



May the Almighty remain with you?

Muhammed Musa.



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