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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:
  • "god-fearing " (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.
  • mrsmary52@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:50:02 +0200
Subject: I SEEK YOUR RESPONSE ASAP.




Mary Parker (Muslim name: Fatima Usman)


Dear Beloved in 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 just in the sight of God for eternal life and in the
sight of man for witness of God & His Mercies and glory upon
my life.

I am Mrs. Mary Parker, the wife of Late Mr. Robert .B.
Parker, my husband worked with the Chevron/Texaco in Kenya
for twenty years before he died in the year 2003. We were
married for Fifteen years without a child. My Husband died
after a brief illness that lasted for only four days.

Before his death we both got born-again and as dedicated
Christians. Since his death I decided not to re marry or get
a child outside my matrimonial home, which the Bible is
strongly against. When my late husband was alive he
deposited the sum of GB£25.5M (Twenty Five Million Five
Hundred Thousand British Pounds Only) with a Bank in LONDON.
Presently, this money is still with the Bank and the
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 letter of authorization to
somebody to receive it on my behalf (note that you need to
activate this account), as I cannot come over.

Presently, I am in a hospital in Kenya where I have been
undergoing 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 anywhere in
the World. Because 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.
I have wholeheartedly decided to donate the entirety of this
fund to any sincere person for these purposes:

1: To set up a cancer center to assist victims of it
2: For the sick, less-privileged and destitute
3: For the Widows and orphans.

These are the wishes of a dying woman. They are the desires
of my heart, hence my decision as I do not have a child to
take over my inheritance.

Please, I beg you in the name of God to help me Stand-in as
the beneficiary and collect the Funds from the Bank for its
purposes. I want a person that is God-fearing who 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 neither took this decision because I don't
have any child that will inherit this money and my husband
relatives are not Christians nor Dedicated Moslems 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 reasons for taking
this bold decision.

I am not afraid of death since 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 around me always. I don't want them to know about this
development.

With God all things are possible.

Beloved one, please send all replies to my private email:
(mrsmary52@gmail.com [mailto:mrsmary52@gmail.com]) for safety and confidentiality
purposes.

Yours Sister in Christ,
Mrs. Mary Parker.



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