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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:
  • "million pounds" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • thatcherswill08@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Lady Rebecca Thatcher." <thatcherswill06@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: thatcherswill07@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:35:24 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Beloved,Reply ASAP.




From: Lady Rebecca Thatcher.
No:36 Old Shrewberry Street,
London England.

Beloved,i am Lady Rebecca Thatcher, suffering from cancerous ailment.I
used to be married to Sir Jeremy Thatcher an Englishman who is dead and
resting peacefully. My husband was into private practice all his life
before he passed. Our life together as man and wife lasted for three
decades without offsprings. My husband died after a protracted illness in
an accident he got from Africa while on humanitarian duties. My
husband,while he was alive made a vow to uplift the down-trodden and the
less-privileged individuals as he had passion for persons who can not help
themselves due to physical disability or financial predicament.I can
adduce this to the fact that he needed a Child from the marriage, which
never came.

When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of Twenty Million
Pounds (20,000,000.00 Million Great Britain Pounds Sterling)which were
derived from his vast estates and investment in capital market with his
bank here in UK. Presently, this money is still with the Bank. Recently,
my Doctor told me that I have limited days to live due to the cancerous
problems I am suffering from.

Though what bothers me most is the stroke that I have in addition to the
cancer. With this hard reality that has befallen me, I have decided to
donate this fund to you and want you to use this gift which comes from my
husbands effort to fund the upkeep of widows, widowers, orphans,
destitute, the down-trodden, physically challenged children, barren-women
and persons who prove to be genuinely handicapped financially.

I took this decision because I do not have any child that will inherit
this money and my husbands relatives are bourgeois and very wealthy
persons and I do not want my husbands hard earned money to be misused or
invested into ill perceived ventures. I do not want this money to be
misused hence the reason for taking this bold decision. I am not afraid of
death hence I know where I am going. I do not need any telephone
communication in this regard due to my deteriorating health and because of
the presence of my husbands relatives around me. I do not want them to
know about this development because i want the money used for the Less
Previledged.

My happiness is that I lived a life worthy of emulation. Please assure me
that you will act just as I have stated herein. Hope to hear from you
soon.

You can contact me through my personal email address at:

thatcherswill08@hotmail.com

Thanking you in advance for everything,

Sincerely yours,

Lady Rebecca Thatcher.
Correo Revisado y Vacunado por el Sistema de Seguridad del Grupo MVS Comunicaciones.

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