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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• This email message is a "dying widow" 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.
  • nancywilson_37@yahoo.com.au (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Mrs.Nancy=20Wilson?=" <nancywilson_37@yahoo.com.au>
Reply-To: nancyharry_wilson@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 08:14:45 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT REPLY


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: nancywilson_37@yahoo.com.au

Dearly Beloved in Christ,


As you glance through my email, don't feel sad for me or neglected but its the way I believe God has planned it to be. I am Mrs Nancy Wilson the wife of Mr. Harry Wilson,an American citizen but in London my husband worked with the Chevron/Texaco in London before he died in the year 2005.We were married for ten years without a child. My Husband died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days. Before his death we were both born again Christians. Since his death I decided not to re-marry or get a child outside my matrimonial home which the Bible is against. When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of US $7.5M. (Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand U.S. Dollars) with a Bank in Europe(LONDON UK).


Presently, this money is still with the Bank and the management just wrote me as the beneficiary to come forward to sign for the release of this 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 in a hospital in Denmark where I have been undergoing treatment for esophageal cancer. I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have only a few weeks to live. It is my last wish to see this money distributed to charity organizations any where in the World. Because relatives and friends have plundered so much of my wealth since my illness, I cannot live with the agony of entrusting this huge responsibility to any of them.


Please, I beg you in the name of God to help me Stand and collect the Funds from the Bank.I want a person that is God fearing that will use this money to fund! churche s,orphanages and widows propagating the word of God and to ensure that the house of God is maintained.


As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of my Attorney who is in London as he will be the one to assist you in laying claims for this funds.


Yours in Christ,

Mrs Nancy Wilson.

- Mrs.Nancy Wilson

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