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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: "Terry Perkins" <tperkins@perkinsworld.net>
Reply-To: terry_perkins_20@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 18:23:11 +0000
Subject: HELLO

MRS TERRY PEKINS
BLESS THY O' LORD

ATTN:

Greetings to you and your family in the name of God. In my search for a
reliable and God fearing person and having gotten your contact through
prayers and painstaking efforts I have decided to seek your help in carrying
out my last wish. My names are TERRY PEKINS. I'm a 65yrs old woman and a
British living in Dubai (United Arab Emirate). My husband was a merchant and
owned two
businesses in Dubai.

I was married with two children. MY HUSBAND and two children died in a car
accident six years ago. Before this happened my business and concern for
making money was all I lived for. I never really cared about other values in
life. But since the loss of my family, I have found a new desire to assist
helpless families. I have been helping orphans in orphanage/motherless
homes.

I have also donated some money for humanitarian needs in Sudan, South
Africa,Cameroon, Brazil, Spain, Austria, Germany and some Asian countries.
Only recently I saw on television the colossal loss of properties and
livelihood of people in Canberra, Australia through fire, as well as the
Tsunami. I was moved with great pity and compassion that I decided to make a
contribution on assisting people over there.

Before I became ill, I kept $12.5 Million in a long-term deposit account in
a finance company. Presently, I'm in a hospital where I have been undergoing
treatment for oesophageal cancer. I have since lost my ability to talk and
my doctors have told me that I have only a few months to live. It is my last
wish to see this money distributed to victims of this fire outbreak in
Australia and other charity organizations.

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. Please, I beg you in the name of God to help me collect the
deposit and the interest accrued from the company and distribute it
accordingly.

Use your judgement to distribute the money and keep 5% of it to yourself.
Feel free to reimburse yourself when you have the money for any cost you
incure during the process of collecting and distributing the money. If you
are willing to help, please reply as soon as you can.

May the good Lord bless you and your family.
Regards
MRS TERRY PEKINS

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