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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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • davsonlegal@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "JENNIFER WILSON" <jeewil@aim.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:46:38 -0500
Subject: PLEASE DO CARRY OUT MY WILL

Hello Dear,


This offer might be strange, but is the wish of a dying 62 years old woman who
now realizes belatedly that there is more to life than mere acquisition of cash
{money} and fame. My name is Mrs. Jennifer Wilson a widow. My late husband and I
perhaps due to our aristocratic background and bad influences lived and never
cared for nobody or whose ox was gored, our motto was be rich and famous and the
world will be at your feet. I am diabetic and recently diagnosed with terminal
lung cancer. The report is obviously not good, several chemotherapy treatments
have not helped either and the obvious fact is that I have few days/weeks more
on planet earth.


Being childless couple, I inherited all my husband wealth and our relations are
no good, as they are waiting patiently for my death to use all our money for
illicit and obscene business/things. Before my health deteriorated that I am
completely dependant on them for basic necessities I have done charitable
ventures within our neighborhoods and beyond and this angered them as they wish
to reap from where they did not sow.


Having come to the realizations of what life is all about-caring for others. I
have given legal consent and full authority to my Attorney-Barrister Davona Baba
of Davson Legal Consultants BV, to immediately disburse all the money to
people/charitable homes and the choice of beneficiaries was done by sampling.
Your name was luckily picked and I have willed the sum of US$1,500,000.00{One
Million, Five Hundred thousand U.S. Dollars} only to you.


This money should be used STRICTLY for humanitarian/charitable cause. Contact my
lawyer immediately who will guide you on the modalities for the collection of
this money. His e-mail address is davsonlegal@aim.com Please quote my personal
reference number for ease of collection-law/chamber/solicitors/je/ws/WILL/9834520012
when reaching him by mail.


I plead with you never to deviate from this agreement and I beg of you to pray
that my soul rest in peace.


Thanks.


Jennifer Wilson.

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