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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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Fraud email example:

From: patriciacedillas@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 23:13:58 -0400
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?HOW=20ARE=20YOU=20TODAY=3F?=


Dear Friend,

Let me first of all inform you, I got your email address from a mail directory
and decided to mail you for a permission to go ahead.

I am Mrs. Patricia Cedillas from México. I am married to Dr.Raymond Cedillas
who worked with a construction company in Tsunami for twenty years before
he died in the tsunami disasters; We were married for fifteen years without
a child,

Since his death I decided not to re-marry. When my late husband was
alive he deposited the sum of 20.6 million dollars (Twenty million six
hundred thousand United State Dollars)with a bank in the Europe.

Presently this money is still with the bank and the management just wrote
me as the beneficiary to come forward to receive the money or
rather issue a letter of authorization to somebody to receive it on my
behalf if I can not come over.

I am presently in a hospital where I have been undergoing treatment for
cancer of the lungs, I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors
have told me that I have only a few months to live.

I want a person that is trustworthy that will use 50% of this money to
fund churches, orphanages and widows and invest the remaining 50% in any
business of your choice which will be profitable to you.

As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the bank.
I will also issue you a letter of authority that will prove
you as the new beneficiary of this fund.

Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated herein.

I await your urgent reply.

Please reply me on my most confidential email address:;(patricia_cedillas@yahoo.it)

Regards,

Mrs. Patricia Cedillas



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