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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)
• 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.
  • gsusan61brown@yahoo.com.hk
  • susanbrown61@myway.com

Fraud email example:

From: =?big5?q?Brown=20Susan?= <susan61brown@yahoo.com.hk>
Reply-To: susan61brown@myway.com
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 00:07:41 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Hello


§Ú¦³·sªº¹q¶l¦a§}¡I§A²{¥i¹q¶lµ¹§Ú¡Gsusan61brown@yahoo.com.hk

Dear Beloved Friend,


Let me first of all inform you, I got your email address from a mail Directory in my late husband's private library and decided to mail you for a permission to go ahead.


I am Mrs. Susan Brown from Holland. I am married to Dr. John Das Brown an London who worked with a construction company in Asia for twenty years before he died in the tsunami disasters, we were married but without Any children.Since his death I decided not to re-marry and presently I am 61 Years old.


When my late husband was Alive he deposited the sum of 15.5 million dollars (Fifteen Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) with a finance firm meant for his business purposes.Presently this money is still with the finance firm 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 receiveit on my behalf if I cannot come over.


I am presently in a hospital where I have been undergoing treatment for Cancer of the lung, 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 my name Mrs. Susan Brown". and 30% will be for your assistance to make sure that this funds is secured.


As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the Finance firm, 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 herein 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.


PLEASE REPLY TO MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS: susanbrown61@myway.com this same email id.

I await your urgent reply.

Regards,


Mother Susan Brown,


God Bless You.







- Brown Susan

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