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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:
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • aichia4real@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MRS. LI" <aichia2real@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: aichia4real@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:51:00 +0200
Subject: DEAR BELOVED IN CHRIST,

DEAR BELOVED IN CHRIST,

IT IS BY THE GRACE OF GOD THAT I RECEIVED CHRIST,KNOWING THE
TRUTH AND THE TRUTH HAVE SET ME FREE.HAVING KNOWN THE TRUTH I
HAD NO CHOICE THAN TO DO WHAT IS LAWFUL AND RIGHT IN THE SIGHT
OF GOD FOR ETERNAL LIFE AND IN THE SIGHT OF MAN FOR WITNESS OF
GOD´S MERCY AND GLORY UPON MY LIFE.
I AM MRS LI FROM USA.I AM MARRIED TO DR.TOMMY LI WHO WORKED
WITH CHEVRON/TEXACO IN EGYPT FOR TWENTY YEARS BEFORE HE DIED IN
THE YEAR 2002.WE WERE MARRIED FOR TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS WITHOUT A
CHILD, HE DIED DURING ONE OF THE RIOTS IN THE EGYPT .HE WAS
HELD HOSTAGE AND SLAIN TO DEATH BY PROTESTING YOUTHS OF THE
REGION IN EDO STATE BEFORE HIS DEATH WE WERE BOTH BORN AGAIN
CHRISTIANS.
EMAIL: aichia4real@yahoo.com

SINCE HIS DEATH I DECIDED NOT TO RE-MARRY.WHEN MY LATE HUSBAND
WAS
ALIVE HE DEPOSITED THE SUM OF (US9.8M)WITH A BANK IN THE FRANCE AND
NOW THE MANAGEMENT OF THE BANK HAVE JUST WROTE ME 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 BECAUSE OF MY CONDITION
AT HAND.I AM PRESENTLY 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 THAT THIS MONEY IS INVESTED AND AT
THE END OF EVERY YEAR DISTRIBUTED AMONG CHARITY ORGANISATION.
AND FOR YOUR COMPESATION, AS SOON AS THE MONEY ENTERS YOUR
ACCOUNT TAKE 30%OF THE TOTAL MONEY, WHILE 70% WILL BE FOR THE
WORK OF GOD.

I TOOK THIS DECISION BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THERE ARE ALOT OF POOR
PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM DIFFERENT KIND OF DISEASE AND NOBODY TO
COME TO THEIR AID.WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. AS SOON AS
I RECEIVE YOUR REPLY I SHALL GIVE YOU THE CONTACT OF THE BANK
IN FRANCE WERE THE MONEY IS BEEN DEPOSITED .I WILL ALSO ISSUE
YOU A LETTER OF AUTHORITY AND CERTIFICATE OF CLAIM THAT WILL
PROVE YOU AS THE NEW BENEFICIARY OF THIS FUND. GET BACK TO ME
I AWAIT YOUR URGENT REPLY.
YOURS IN CHRIST,
MRS. LI

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