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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.
  • m.shombe1@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MRS. MARIAM SHOMBO" <ma_shom@yahoo.com.au>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:14:45 +1100 (EST)
Subject: GAT BACK TO ME NOW?


From: Mrs. mariam shombe,

Dearst one,

Greetings in the name of God. Please let this not sound strange to you. I am deaf and suffering from a long time cancer of the brian which 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 six months, this is because the cancer stage has gotten to a very bad stage. I was brought up from a motherless baby's home, married to my late husband for twenty years without a child. My husband 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 the sum of US$18.3 million dollars with a Security Company. Presently this money is still with them and the management just wrote me as the true owner to come forward to receive the money or issue a letter of authorization to somebody to receive it on my behalf since I can not come over because of my illness. Presently I'm with my lap top 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 months to live. It is my last wish to see that this money is invested to any organization of your choice and distributed each year among the charity organization, the poor and the motherless baby?s home where I come from. I want you God fearing to also use this money to fund churches, orphanages and widows.


If you are interested, please contact me on this email

m.shombe1@yahoo.com

Send the bellow informations to me. Then i will give you the contact of the Finance House, and will also issue you a letter of authority that will prove you as the new beneficiary of this fund. Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated herein.

Full names_________________
Contact Address________________
Telephone/fax numbers____________

God bless you.

Yours in Christ,
Mrs. mariam shombe,


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