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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:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a "dying widow" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: MRS STELA WHITE <info_mrsstelawhite15@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:46:08 +0200
Subject: YOURS SISTER IN CHRIST,


FROM MRS STELLA WHITE OF NETHERLANDS
PLEASE ENDEAVOUR TO USE IT ON
CHURCHES,ORPHANAGES AND WIDOWS

Dearest one,

I am the above named
person from Netherlands. I am married to Mr.Franklyn White who worked
with canada Embassy in Nigeria for nine years before he died in the
year 2000.We were married for eleven years without a child. He died
after a brief illness that lasted for only four days.

Before his
death, we were both born again christians.When my late husband was
alive he deposited the sum of Fifteen million, four hundred thousand U.
S.Dollars (US$15.4) with BARCLAYS BANK PLC LONON, Presently this money
is still with the above mentioned bank and the management just wrote me
mas the beneficiary to come forward to receive the money or rather
issue a letter of authorisation to somebody to receive it on my behalf
if I can not come over.Again,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
few months to live.

It is my last wish to see this money distributed
to charity organizations because relatives and friends have plundered
so much of my wealth since my illness.I cannot live with the agony of
entrusting this huge responsibility to any of them. Please,I beg you in
the name of God to help me collect the deposit and the interest accrued
from the bank and distribute it accordingly. I want a person that has
God fearing, that will use this money on churches,orphanages and widows
propagating the word of God and to ensure that the house of God is
maintained.

The Bible made us to understand that Blessed is the hand
that giveth.I took this decision because I don't have any child that
will inherit this money.My happiness is that I lived a life of a worthy
Christian. Whoever that wants to serve the Lord must serve him in
spirit and truth. Please always be prayerful all through your life. Any
delay in your replywill give me room in searching for another person
for this same purpose.

Hoping to hear from you soonest.


Yours
Sister in Christ,
MRS STELA WHITE

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