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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:
  • "million united state dollars" (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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "mrs. melina" <mrs.melina35@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <mrs.melina080@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:01:37 +0100
Subject: Dear Beloved in Christ



Dear Beloved in Christ

I am sorry to come to you in this way but i am happy to tell you my fillings ok.
My name is Mrs. Melina Mark the wife of late Mr. James T. Mark who was the Cocoa exporting director here in Ivory Coast before he died in the year 2005.

We were married for twenty years with one child called Johnson who is 17 year old. When my husband was alive we deposited the sum of Six Million United state Dollars (USD$6,000,000.00) with one of the bank here in Ivory Coast, presently this money is still in the bank as fix deposit, but my worried is recently my Doctor told me that I would not last for the next Two months due to my cancer Sickness, and since then my whole life has been a miserable one. Because of my health condition I decided to donate part of this money to a good charity organisations and orphanage homes.

I need a Godly person who will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct, to use some part of the money for charity and orphanage and to invest the rest of the money for good business in your country so that my son will have a better future. I also took this decision because my husband relatives are not honest with my husband when he was alive, they are enemies of progress and they don’t have the fear of God in them, they are not Godly and I have to avoid them they have no idea about this money deposited in the bank here.

I want my son to inherit this money but he can not carry out this alone due to his younger age with his low mentality and to keep away from any mistake of my late husbands relatives having any idea of this deposit because the are always around us to monitor our movements to see if there is still any hidden treasure, property or money. This is why I take this bold decision to contact you personally as a foreigner for assistance, so that the bank can transfer the money out of this Country in your name as my foreign partner once I present you.

As soon as I hear from you I shall direct you to the bank here where the money was deposited with all the information’s. Please I want you and your family to always pray for my healing and to always be prayerful to God in all the days of your life. The God is our strength and with God all things are possible. I will be expecting to hear from you soonest.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Melina Mark.

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