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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)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a "dying widow" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: anita smith <anitasmith_8@yahoo.co.in>
Reply-To: anitasmithprivate3@myway.com
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 03:13:56 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: DEAR BELOVED ONE........................


Dear Beloved 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.Anita smith from Holland.I am 68 Years old. I married to late Engr. Clement Smith, a South African who worked with Julius Berger a well known construction company in Africa) for many Years before he died in the 27th January 2002 bomblast in Lagos at our Ikeja resident in Nigeria,we were married with Two children(both of them were victims of the recent December 17 Sosoliso plane crash in Portharcourt on their visit to spend their Christmas Holidays with me.


When my late husband was Alive he deposited the sum of US$15M. (Fifteen Million U.S. Dollars) with a Security Company. Presently this money is still with the Security 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 cannot come over.I am presently in a hospital where I have been undergoing treatment for Cancer of the lungs in a hospital, 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 utilize 70% of this money to fund churches, orphanages and widows around the world but in the name of my late children's name (James Smith and Alice)as Mirobets memorial funds.While i will offerred you 30% for your urgent assistance in this transaction.

As soon as I receive your reply shall give you the contact of the security Company. 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 here in and Keep this contact confidential till such a time this funds get to your Custody. This is to ensure that
nothing jeopardizes my last wish on Earth.

God Bless YOU as I await your urgent reply.
MOTHER ANITA SMITH.





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