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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a "dying widow" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs Serena Jones" <serenajones0001@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrserenajones@jmail.co.za
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 02:21:54 -0600
Subject: Hello

Hello

I am Mrs.Serena Jones from Kuwait.I am married to Dr.Harry Jones who worked
with Kuwait embassy in Ivory Coast for nine years before he died in the
year 2000.We were married for eleven years without a child.

He died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days.When my late
husband was alive he deposited the sum of $14m (fourteen million
U.S.Dollars)with SECURITIES FIRM in Europe.Presently,this money is still
with the security Firm in Europe.I'm asking your partnership to transfer the
fund to your account.I took this decision because I don't have any child
and my husband relatives are not in good terms with me,I don't need any
telephone communication in this regard because of my health because of the
presence of my husband's relatives around me always.I don't want them to
know about this development.

You may be quite surprised at my sudden contact to you but do not despair, I
got your contact from a business site on the internet and following the
information I gathered about you, I was convinced that you could be of
assistance to me. So I decided to contact you at once due to the urgency
required for us to immediately transfer the said funds out of the SECURITY
FIRM in Europe.

So long as you keep everything to yourself, you would definitely have no
problems. For your assistance, I am ready to give you as much as 40% of the
total funds after confirmation in your possession and invest a reasonable
percentage into any viable business you may suggest. Please, I need your
assistance to make this happen and please do not undermine it because it
will also be a source of up liftment to you also. You have absolutely
nothing to loose in assisting me instead, you have so much to gain.

With God all things are possible.As soon as I receive your reply I shall
give you the contact of the security firm in Europe.I will also issue a
letter of authority via my lawyer that will prove you as the original-
beneficiary of this fund.Hoping to hearing from you.

Awaiting your urgent reply.

Best Regards,

Mrs Serena Jone.

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