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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million british pounds" (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)
  • "god fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
  • "calvary greetings" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• This email message is a "dying widow" 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.
  • k_foundation2000@yahoo.com.cn (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: 4ymsps@comcast.net (Mrs.Kate Burke Foundation)
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:29:31 +0000
Subject: HELLO MY FRIEND PLEASE USE THESE FUNDS FOR THE ORPHAN IN YOUR LOCALITY..

Dear Friend


Compliment of the season to you and your family.

Please respond email to my private email box (k_foundation2000@yahoo.com.cn)

Calvary greetings to you in the Mighty name of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

It is by the grace of God that I received Christ, having known the truth, I had no choice than to do what is lawful and right in the sight of God for eternal life and in the sight of man for witness of God's mercy and glory upon my life. I am Mrs. Kate Burke wife of Engr. Sean Burke, a citizen of America.

My husband worked with the Tao-Xing Production Company in Korea for twenty years before he died in the year August 6 1997, in a Korean Air Flight 801 Plane Crash.

You can View the authenticity of this details on the following link:

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list/

We were married for twenty-seven years without a child. Before his death we were both born again Christians. Since his death I decided not to re-marry or get a child outside my matrimonial home which the Bible is against. When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of 5M GBP. (Five Million British Pounds) with the Bank In Europe.

Presently, this money is still with the Bank, and the management just wrote me as the beneficiary to come forward to sign for the release of this money or rather issue a LETTER OF AUTHORIZATION to somebody to receive it on my behalf if I can not come over.

Presently, I'm in a hospital in Hong-Kong where I have been under going treatment for esophageal cancer. I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have only a few weeks to live. It is my last wish to see this money distributed to charity organizations any where in the World because my relatives and friends have plundered so much of my wealth since my illness, I cannot live with the agony of entrusting this huge responsibility to any of them.

Please, I beg you in the name of God to help me Stand and collect the Funds from the Bank. I want a person that is God fearing that will use this money to fund churches, orphanages and widows propagating the word of God and to ensure that the house of God is maintained. The Bible made us to understand that blessed is the hand that giveth. I took this decision because I don't have any child that will inherit this money and my husband relatives are not Christians and I don't want my husband's
hard earned money to be misused by unbelievers. I don't want a situation where this money will be used in an ungodly manner. Hence the reason for taking this bold decision.

I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going. I know that I am going to be in the bosom of the Lord. Exodus 14 VS 14 says that (the lord will fight my case and I shall hold my peace). I don't need any telephone communication in this regard because of my soundless voice and presence of my husband's relatives. I don't want them to know about this development. With God all things are possible. As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you all required documents requested from you by the Bank.

This is how the percentage is to be shared, you will be entitled to 35% of the total funds, while 5% will be for expenses incurred by you during the course of the transaction, while the remaining 60% will be managed by you to establish an orphanage home in your locality, with my name and will be managed by you.

Feel free to negotiate any percentage% of your choice.

If this is acceptable by you, I will require you send to me the following information via my email address (k_foundation2000@yahoo.com.cn ) as it will have to reflect in the NOTIFICATION that will be sending to the Bank

1. FULL NAMES:
2. CONTACT ADDRESS:
3. PHONE/FAX NUMBER:
4. DATE OF BIRTH:
5. OCCUPATION:

The minute I receive this information, I will issue the LETTER OF AUTHORIZATION to the Bank, then thereafter send to you the contact of my family attorney, so that you can be in contact with him, as he will be responsible in making available to you the necessary documents as well as the contact of the Bank in Europe.

Yours in Christ,

Mrs. Kate Burke.
For: Burke's Foundation
Email: k_foundation2000@yahoo.com.cn

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