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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:
  • "dear beloved," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a "dying widow" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Karl Ona" <mrs_karlona@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:35:04 +0000
Subject: DEAR BELOVED, PLEASE READ CAREFULLY.

Dear beloved,

I am Mrs Karl Ona from Scotland, I am 58 years old, i am a deaf and
suffering from a long time cancer of the breast which also affected my
brain. By all indication my condition is really deteriorating, and my
doctors have courageously advised me that i may not live beyond the next two
months, this is because the cancer stage has reached a critical stage. I
was brought up in a motherless babies home, and was married to my late
husband for twenty years without a child. My husband and i are true
christians, but quite unfortunately, he died in a fatal motor accident.

Since his death I decided not to re-marry,I sold all my inherited
belongings and deposited all the sum of $8.6million dollars with a Security
Company. Presently, this money is still in their custody, and the management
just wrote me as the true owner to come forward to receive the money after
keeping it for so long or rather issue a letter of authorization to somebody
to receive it on my behalf since I can not come over as a result of my
illness, or they get it confisticated. Presently, I'm with my laptop in a
hospital where I have been undergoing treatment. 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 in any organisation
of your choice and distributed each year among the charity organization,the
poor and the motherless babies home where i come from. I want you good
humanitarian, to also use this money to fund churches,
orphanages and widows around .I must let you know that this was a very hard
decision, but i had to take a bold step towards this issue, and i hope you
will help see my last wishes come true.

As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the
Security Company. I will also issue you a letter of authority which will
prove that you are the new beneficiary of my funds. Please assure me that
you will act accordingly as I stated herein. Hope to hear from you soonest.

Awaiting your reply

Yours in Christ,

Mrs Karl Ona

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