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

Fraud email example:

From: mary walter <marywalter2006@web.de>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:06:43 +0200
Subject: Dear beloved,




Dear beloved,

It is by the grace of God that I received Christ,knowing the truth and the
truth have set me free.Having known the truth I had no choice than to do
what is lawful and right in the sight of God for eternal life and in the
sight of man for witness of God´s mercy and glory upon my life.

I know you will definitely take this as a deceptive email,becauseof the
swindle news we hear everyday and now it happens am from GHANA it seems to
happen more often.Let me first of all inform you, i got your e.mail id from
a mail directory and decided to e.mail you for a permission to go ahead.

I am Mrs Mary Walter from Liberia .I am married to Mr. williams walter who
worked with Mobile company in NIGERIA for Nine years before he died in the
year 2003.We were married for twenty-one years without a child,He died
during one of the riots in the NIGERIA .

Since his death I decided not to re-marry.When my late husband was
alive he deposited the sum of ($4.6m)with a bank in the NIGERIA and now the
management of the bank have just wrote me to come forward to receive the
money or rather issue a letter of authorisation to somebody to receive it
on my behalf if I can not come over.

I am presently with my laptop in a hospital where I have been
undergoingtreatment 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 and at the end of every year
distributed among charity organisation.

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 alot 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 in NIGERIA.I will also issue you a
letter of authority and certificate of cleam that will prove you as the new
beneficiary of this fund.

Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated here.
I await your urgent reply.

Yours in Christ,

Mrs Mary Walter




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