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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 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.
  • vivianjems@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs Vivian James" <vivianjames1@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: vivianjems2@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 03:54:51 +0000
Subject: PLEASE I NEED YOUR HELP!!!

 

From:Mrs Vivian Solange James of benin I am the above named person from benin. I am married to Dr.Franklyn Solange Jams who worked with benin Embassy in  canada for nine years before he died in the year 2000.We were married for eleven years without a child. He died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days. Before his death we were both born again Christian's.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 (Ten Million six hundred thousand U.S.Dollars)with a commercial bank in the benin. Presently, this money is still with the bank 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 receive it on my behalf if I can not come over. Presently, I'm 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 weeks to live. It is my last wish to see this money distributed to charity organizations. 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 by collecting the deposit and the interest accrued from the bank and distribute it accordingly. As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the bank. I will also issue you a letter of authority that will prove you as the new beneficiary of this fund. I want you and the church to always pray for me because the lord is my Shepherd. My happiness is that I lived a life of a worthy Christian. whoever that wants to serve the Lord must serve him in spirit and truth. Please always be prayerful all through your life. Any delay in your reply will give me the room in sourcing for another person for this same purpose. Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated here. Hoping to hear from you soon. waiting for your reply Yours in Christ, Vivianjems@yahoo.ca Mrs Vivian Solange Jams

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