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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447031861041 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • chrispennchambers@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: grace chriis <grace_4_chriis@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 21:59:53 +0100 (BST)
Subject: MY BELOVED IN CHRIST


Dear Friend,
Calvery Greetings, How are you hope you are keeping healthy,permit me to ask you if you are in full time ministerial word? is your ministry into humaniterian activities? as indicated in the directory where I found your contact.

Let me hasten to introduce myself as Mrs Christopher Grace ,I am married to Mr.Christopher, a British based business man in INDIA due to its recent rapid economic growth, who until his death was a timber and and raw matrials export marchant here in INDIA. It's a sorrowful thing to say that he died in a fatal motor accident on of may 2003 alongside with only our son, while cominig back from a business meeting.(God knows the best). When my husband was alive,He deposited his life's savings ( $7.5 MILLION US DOLLARS) in a security vault here in INDIA as family valuables, with my name as the next of kin.
As God may have it, recently i was diagonised of liver cancer, and the doctors said i have just six months to live. In view of my condition, and the fact that i have nobody to leave this money behind for, knowing fully well that my late husband people are after my life, just because i converted their most elderly brother (my husband)to christainity, with the exception of my husband people who are not Christains, I decided to donate this money to either a living Church or a humaniterian organization/religious organization that will use this money in propagating the good message and also taking care of the orphans,widows, and the needy generally.( 2Cor:4:6-18-17 ).

By so doing, I would have susceeded in immortalising the names of my late Husband and my only son. Beloved, though i am sick and dieing, I am not afraid of death because I know where I am going. My soul has found a resting place in the handsome bossom of the lord. Who shall seperate us from the love of christ? Shall tribulation, or persecution- -- -Rom 8:28-38 vs 35.

As soon as i receive your reply,our family lawyer Barrister Chris Penn, will give you all the contact of the bank and all the legal documents that would warrant the transfer of the fund to you.Please understand that this message requires urgency as my ill-health demands, any delay in your response will give me room to contact other person, I also want an assurance that you will use this fund for the purpose i have stated here. Please feel free to contact him with this very email address for confidentiality and easy execution of this transaction chrispennchambers@yahoo.co.uk Tell: +447031861041

Remain blessed
Mrs.Christopher Grace




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