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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: "mrs. jennifer williams" <jennifer_williams66@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jennifer_williams500@yahoo.dk
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 18:03:00 +0100
Subject: I CRAVE YOUR INDULENCE TO READ THIS MAIL.

I CRAVE YOUR INDULENCE TO READ THIS MAIL.
Dear Beloved,
Greetings to you in the most wonderful name of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ.His richest blessings shall be upon you forever. I am Mrs. Jennifer
Williams,I am 51 years old fromNetherlands,i am deaf and suffering from a
long time cancer of the Lungs which also affected my brain,from all
indication my conditions is really deteriorating and it is quite obvious
that, accordingto 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 avery bad
stage. I was brought up from a motherless babies
home, was 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 all the sum of $18.5million 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 for keepin t 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 have told me that I have
only a fewmonths tolive. 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. I shall wait at your prayerful
reply. Thanking you in His precious name.

Yours in His Service,
Mrs.Jennifer Williams.

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