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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.

Fraud email example:

From: MRS MERCY AGUMA <mrsmercy50@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:05:34 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Dear Beloved In Christ


Dear Beloved In Christ

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 am Mrs Mercy Aguma from GHANA.I am married to Dr.Frank Aguma who worked
with Chevron/Texaco in NIGERIA for twenty years before he died in the year
2002.We were married for twenty-seven years without a child,He died during
one of the riots in the NIGERIA .He was held hostage and slain to death by
protesting youths of the region in EDO state before his death we were both born again christians.
Since his death I decided not to re-marry.When my late husband was alive
he deposited the sum of ($3m)(Three Million US.Dollars)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 undergoing
treatment 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.
And for your compesation, as soon as the money enters your account take
25% of the total money, 5% for any expenses while 70% will be for the work
of GOD.

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 were the money is been
deporsit .I will also issue you a letter of authority and certificate of
claim 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 Mercy


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