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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 sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
• 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.
  • jenniferalinnn@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: jennifer alin <jennifer_alin@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: jenniferalin22@yahoo.fr
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 12:27:22 +0100 (CET)
Subject: PLEASE REPLY ME IN THIS PRAVITE EMAIL ADDRESS (jenniferalinnn@yahoo.fr)


My Dear sir/madam

PLEASE I REALY NEED YOUR HELP AND PRESENTLY PLEASE
PLEASE REPLY ME IN THIS PRAVITE EMAIL ADDRESS (jenniferalinnn@yahoo.fr)

I am Mrs jennifer alin I am 58 years old,i am deaf and suffering from a long time cancer of the breast which also affected my brain,from all indication my conditions is really deteriorating and it is quite obvious that, according to my doctors they have advised me that i may not live for the next two months,this is because the cancer stage has gotten to a very bad stage. I was brought up from a motherless babies home was married to my late husband for twenty years without a child ,died in a fatal motor accident Before his death we were true Christians.

Since his death I decided not to re-marry,I sold all my inherited belongings and deposited all the sum of $5.5million dollars with a Security Company here in my country even to prove to you i have the Document that backing it this money as i am telling now Presently, this money is still with them and the management
just wrote me as the true owner to come forward to receive the money for keeping it so long or rather issue a letter of authorization to somebody to receive it on my behalf since I can not come over because of my illness or they get it confisticated.

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 william, have told me that I have only a few months to live.

It is my last wish to see that this money is invested to 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 God fearing, to also use this money to fund churches, orphanages and widows,I took this decision, before i rest in peace because my time will soon be up.

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 that will prove you as the new beneficiary of my fund. Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated herein. Hoping to hearing from you soon.

PLEASE REPLY ME IN THIS PRAVITE EMAIL ADDRESS (jenniferalinnn@yahoo.fr)

Waiting for your reply
Yours in Christ
Mrs jennifer alin




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