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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:
  • "please indicate your interest" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a next of kin 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.
  • mrs.boris_lucia@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Mrs Lucia Boris <mrs.b.lucia3@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <mrs.boris_lucia@yahoo.it>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:54:36 +0000
Subject: My Dear Chosen One



My Dear Chosen One

Godly Opinion:

I crave your indulgence at this mail coming from somebody you have not known before. I decided to do this after praying over the situation. You should please consider the transaction on its content and not the fact that you have not known me before. I need not dwell on how I came by your contact information because there are many such possibilities these days.
Introduction: I am Mrs. Lucia Boris ,of Republic of Benin, West Africa, widow to Late Mr. Croft Boris (for Consular of the Republic Of Benin embassy in Tunis Tunisia,) I have been recently been diagnosed of Cancer of the Pelvic.

I am writing from my sick bed.

My reason of contact is about US$8.5 Million (Eight Million Five Hundred United States Dollars) my husband has in Security and Finance house of which I am the next of kin. Going by my health condition and because my husband and I have no children, I am looking for a credible person to whom I will pass the right of next of kin. You the sole person will apply to the Security Company and request for the transfer of the fund to your care through our family lawyer.
What is expected of you?

This is on the condition that you will take 50% of the fund for yourself, while you will use the remaining 50% for the less privilege people in the society. This is in fulfilment of the last request of my late husband: that a substantial part of the fund be used to carter for the less privileged the motherless and the most stripped.

If this condition is acceptable to you, you should contact me immediately with your full names, Direct Telephone number and contact information so that I will ask our family lawyer to prepare the document of authorization that will give you the right of next of kin to the Fund.

Our Family lawyer will also give you a text of the application which you are to send to the Security and Finance house where the money is logded.

I cannot predict what will be my fate by the time the fund will be transferred into your account, but you should please ensure that the fund is used as I have described above, please indicate your interest via my private e-mail address: mrs.boris_lucia@yahoo.it

Yours,Mrs. Lucia Boris Inform me all your details below.Full Name:..............................................Country of origin:.....................................Tel/Mobile N°:.........................................Age :.......................................................Occupation:.............................................Sex : ………………………………………....................
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