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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 merchant" 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.
  • fred_mende@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "fred" <fred_mende@myway.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 20:27:14 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: URGENT










Dear sir, I write you with what i will call my last state ofbeing. As you read through this agony am passingthrough now, I pray that God who is in heaven willgive you the stength and wisdom to help me actualisethis goal before i go or rather die Again,as youperuse this,I do not want you to feel sorry for mebecause I believe this is the will of God and everyeveryone will die someday.My name is fred Chris mende, a business merchant inLondon,the capital of UK. I have been diagnosed withEsophageal cancer which was discovered very late,dueto my laxity in caring for myhealth and i know realise that this laxity isassociated with my so much commitment in mybusiness. It has defiled all forms of medicine, andright now I have only about a few months to live,according to medical experts.I have not particularly lived my life so well, as Inever really cared for anyone,is only self and mybusiness.I have a huge funds of US$1.44milliondeposited in form of my personal valuables in
aconsignment with a security &amp; finance company In UK. Iwill want you to help me collect this deposit anddispatch it to charity organizations as stated below.Recently, my Doctor told me that I have a limited ornumbered days on earth due to the cancerous problems Iam suffering from.Though what bothers me most is the stroke that I havein addition to the cancer.With this hard reality that has befallen me, I havedecided to donate this fund to a non-governmental, ora non religious,and or a non profit organization orbetter still an individual, that will utilizethis money the way I am going to instruct herein. Iwill prefer an individual,that will use this giftwhich comes from me to fund the upkeep of animalshelter homes, destitute, the down-trodden, physicallychallenged children, andpersons who prove to be genuinely handicappedfinancially.It is often said that blessed is the hand that gives.Itook this decision because I do not have any childthat will inherit this money ,mywifeand
my child died seven years ago and i decided not toget married again and my relatives are bourgeois and Ionce asked members of my family to close one of myaccounts and distribute the money which I have thereto charity organizations in any part of the world,they refused and kept the money.I do not want a situation where this money will beused in an ungodly manner,hence the reason for takingthis bold decision. I am not afraid of death since Iknow where I am going.I do not need any telephone communication in thisregard due to my deteriorating health and because ofthe presence of my relatives around me.I do not wantthem to know about this development.With God all things are possible.As soon as I receive your replyI shall give you the contact of the security &amp; financecompany where the fund is lodged. I will also instructmy attorney because he always comes around to visit mehere in hospital and i will be handing him over allthe legal documentations of the consignment that
willempower you as the original beneficiary of thisconsignment.My happiness is that I lived a life worthy ofemulation.Please always be prayerful all through yourlife. Any delay in your reply will give me room insourcing for an individual for this same purpose. Itis the will of God to contact you.Looking forward in having yourplesae you can reply me via my private box fred_Mende@myway.com response.mr fred chris mende

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