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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a "dying merchant" scam.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • wilsimon212@yahoo.com.cn (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?gb2312?q?simon=20william?= <wilsimon212@yahoo.com.cn>
Reply-To: wilsimon103@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 00:08:24 +0800 (CST)
Subject: hello


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Dear beloved

As you read this, I don't want you to feel sorry for

me, because, I believe everyone will die someday.

My name is william simon I a merchant of

Omani nationality.

I have been diagnosed with Esophageal cancer .

It has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and right now

I have only about a few months to live, according to medical experts.

I have not particularly lived my life so well, as I

never really cared for anyone(not even myself)but my

business. Though I am very rich, I was never

generous, I was always hostile to people and only

focused on my business as that was the only thing I

cared for. But now I regret all this as I now know

that there is more to life than just wanting to have

or make all the money in the world.

I believe when God gives me a second chance to come

to this world I would live my life a different way

from how I have lived it. Now that God has called

me, I have willed and given most of my property

and assets to my immediate and extended family

members as well as a few close friends.

I want God to be merciful to me and accept my soul

so, I have decided to give alms to charity

organizations, as I want this to be one of the last

good deeds I do on earth. So far, I have distributed

money to some charity organizations in the Oman,

Algeria and Malaysia. Now that my health has

deteriorated so badly, I cannot do this myself

anymore. I once asked members of my family to close one

of my accounts and distribute the money which I have

there to charity organization in Bulgaria and

Pakistan, they refused and kept the money to

themselves. Hence, I do not trust them anymore, as

they seem not to be contended with what I have left

for them.

The last of my money which no one knows of is the

huge cash deposit of eighteen million dollars

18,000,000 that I have with a finance/Security Company

abroad. I will want you to help me collect this deposit

and dispatche it to charity organizations.

I have set aside 20% for you and for your time.

God be with you.

william simon




- simon william

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