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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 beloved," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • ",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)
• 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.
  • angel1962_parker@yahoo.com
  • c_angelcus@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: david bennedict <david43_bennedict@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 04:34:15 -0800 (PST)
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT REPLY AS SOON AS YOU READ IT


Dear Beloved,
Here writes Lady Angel Parker, suffering from oesophageal cancer. I was married to Mr. Robert Parker an English man who is deceased. My late husband died with a deposit of $17.5 Million Dolars(17,500,000.00USD.)INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK ACCRA GHANA .

Derived from his vast estates and investment in capital market . Before his death we both got born-again and became dedicated Christians. Recently, my Doctor told me that i have limited days to live due to the cancerous problems i am suffering from. Though what bothers me most is the stroke that i have in addition to the cancer.

Recently, the Bank management, just wrote me as the beneficiary that our account has been DORMANT and if i, as the beneficiary of the funds, do not re-activate the account, the funds will be CONFISCATED or i rather issue a l not come over. And doctors have told me that i have only a few weeks to live person use this money to fund churches, orphanages, widows and propagating the word of God.

I took this decision because i do not have any child that will inherit this money and my husband's relatives are bourgeois and very wealthy persons. And i do not want my husband's hard earned money to be used in an unGodly manner by unbelievers in God.
You can contact me through my personal email
angel1962_parker@yahoo.com
(OR) ALTERNATIVE e mail adress.
c_angelcus@yahoo.com

Yours Sincerely,
Lady Angel Parker



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