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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a "dying widow" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "janet japes" <mrsjanetjapes1@msn.com>
Reply-To: janet_japes111@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:15:59 +0000
Subject: URGENT

From: Mrs Janet Japes

I am Mrs Janet Japes from Netherlands.

I was married to Dr. Ahmed Japes who worked with Chevron Texaco in
Nigeria for twenty years before he died in the year 2000, May be you must
have
heard about him in the oil firm.We were married for thirty-seven years
without a child. He died during one of the riot in the Niger delta region of
Nigeria.

He was held hostage and slain to death by protesting youths of the region.
Before his death we were both born again Christians. Since his death I
decided not to re-marry. When my late husband was alive he deposited
the sum of $9,500,000,00 Million with a security company in Europe
Presently,
this money is still with the company 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.

Presently, I'm with my laptop 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.

It is my last wish to see that this money is invested the proceed at
the end of every year distributed among charity organization.

I want a person that is God fearing that 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 took this decision because I know
that there are a lot of poor people suffering from different kind of disease
and nobody to come to their aid.

With God all things are possible. 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. You
are to help me invest this funds into real estate and stocks. You will be
entitled to 10% of every profit you make in a year.

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

Note. You can contact the security company’s Correspondence office in
Europe for verification on the consignment as the funds was deposited
in a
trunk box as a consignment, and the consignment’s code is “555” name of
depositor Ahmed Japes, present beneficiary Janet Japes.


Hoping to hearing from you soon.


Waiting for your reply



Yours in Christ,

Mother Janet Japes

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