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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)
• 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.
  • jonathanluthman2@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Jonathan Luthman" <jonathanluthman3@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jonathanluthman2@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:24:44 +0000
Subject: Very Urgent And Diplomatic

Dear Friend.
May the Goodness and Peace of God be unto you......Amen.

As you read this, I don't want you to feel sorry for me because I believe
everyone will die someday.My name is Jonathan Luthman, a merchant in
Lebanon.I have been diagnosed with Esophageal Cancer which was discovered
very late due to my laxity in carrying for my health. It has defiled all
forms of medicine and right now I have only about a few months to live,
according to medical experts.I have not particularly lived my life so well
as my primary interest and focus was only my business.Though I am very
rich,I was never generous.But now I regret all this as I now know that there
is more to life than just wanting to have or make all the money in the
world.I believe when God gives me a second chance to come to this world I
would live my life a different way from how I have lived it.

I know you will be wondering why I am writing you such a sensitive proposal
considering the magnitude of the funds involved especially to a total
stranger but I wish to inform you here that my contacting you is not by
mistake but by virtue of God's doing because I believe that such
circumstances of this kind happens for a reason, based on this I decided to
write you through my official web address all my bid to erase any form of
doubt in order to prove the reality and the legitimacy of this proposal, but
as a man of strong faith I will only urge you to carefully read and give a
consideration to this proposal.

Moreover,I lost my Family's to recent War between Isreal Military attack on
Hezbollas forces in Lebanon. Now that it is obvious that God has called me,I
have willed and given most of my properties and assets to my immediate and
extended family members and as well
as a few close friends in Britain.I want God to be merciful to me and accept
my soul and I have decided to give arms to charity organizations and give
succour and confort to the less priviledged in our societies.I want this to
be one of the last good deeds I do on earth. So far I have distributed money
to some charity organizations in the U.A.E,India,Turkey,Bulgaria and
Pakistan. Now that my health has deteriorated so badly,I cannot do this my
self anymore.I once asked a member of my family to close one of my accounts
and distribute the money to three charity organizations and to the less
priviledged in Bulgaria and Pakistan he refused and kept the money to
himself.Hence I do not trust him anymore as he seem not to be contended with
what I have left for him.

The last of my money which no one knows of is the huge cash deposit of Sixty
Four Millions Dollars (64M USD) that I have with a Bank in Europe and
America for safe keeping.I will want you to help me collect this deposit and
disburse it to some charity organizations and to the less priviledged in
your country.Please send me a mail to indicate if you will assist me in this
disbursement.I have set aside 20% for you for your time and patience.

While I await to hear from you,may God guide and reward you in all your
endevours as you make me realise my last dreams and wishes.
I await for your timely response to my private email address:
jonathanluthman2@hotmail.com
Yours Friend.
Jonathan Luthman.

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