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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:
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "utmost confidentiality" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "chambers" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a "dying widow" scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • charity_smith_chambers01@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Jane Alex" <j.alex21956@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:48:46 -0700
Subject: Re: thanks for your reply


*Hello Friend,

How are you? I am sure that you will be surprise to receive my email since
I have not met you for the first time.

I wanted to do something that I know will be good to God and Humanity.

Though there are lots of uninteresting contacts and information going on the
net but I still feel comfortable writing to you.

What I am going to let you know now may sound very unbelievable, but I Don't
care how it sound but that is what I intend doing and I will want to do it
through you. Please don't joke with this information am giving you below
because it is no joke and if it is one, I wont waste my time contacting you.

Well, My name is Mrs. Jane Alex .I now live In Cambridge shire Let me take
you down to a little about my history. I am a self-employed consultant and a
board member of the Nene Housing.

I am a dying woman who had decided to donate what I have to poor and for the
purpose of Charity through you.

You may be wondering why I chose you, I entered into Online Directory
searching for a reliable profile that sooth my heart and Mind tells me you
are the right person for what I want to do. And I am doing this on trust
because I know I may live or I may not but I have to leave a legacy behind.

I am 59 years old now and was diagnosed for cancer about 2 years ago,
briefly after the death of my husband Mr.Alex Pitt who had left me
everything he worked for. I have been touched by God to donate from what I
have inherited from my late husband to you for the good work of

God, rather Than allow my Relatives to use my husband's hard earned funds
ungodly.

I have asked God to forgive me of all my sins and I believe he has, because
He is a merciful God.

I will be going in for a radioactive Surgery in a week time, and I pray that
I survive the operation. I have decided to will/donate the sum of
GBP2,500.000 (USD$5,000,000) my husband to you for the good work of God, and
to help the motherless, Less privileged and also for the assistance of the
widows in Your Church, and organization.

At the moment I cannot take any telephone calls, or reply emails due to the
fact that my relatives are around me and I have been restricted by my
doctor from taking telephone calls because I deserve all the rest I can get
before the surgery.

So please don't worry about me okay because incase I lost my life, I will be
smiling at the poor for at least I have tried to touch their life so
preciously through you.

Presently, I have informed my lawyer Barrister John Harry Working with
Morelinks Associates Of Charity Chambers in London about my decision in
willing this fund to you. I wish you all the best and may the good God bless
you abundantly, and please use the funds well and always extend the good
work to others.

Kindly contact my lawyer through this email address:
charity_smith_chambers01@yahoo.com
Phone:+44(0)7024032756

Please if you can help then contact my lawyer. He will tell you the
necessary arrangements on how to release this money.

Further more you should remove 20% ( After the transfer) for the expenses
you may incur on trying to get the money transfer to you and your assistance
if you will love to assist, I am now too weak and fragile to do things
myself due to my state of health.

NB: I will appreciate your outmost confidentiality (Keep it within you) in
this matter until the task is accomplished. I don't want anything that will
jeopardize my last wish, due to the fact that I do not want my relatives or
family members standing in the way of my last wish.



Mrs. Jane Alex (BA Hons)



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