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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:
  • "dear beloved," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • silva.robert.147@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: silva.robert.147@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:20:51 +0600
Subject: Dear Beloved,


Dear Beloved,

I am Lady Silva Robert, married to Sir Desmond Roberts an
Englishman who is dead; he died in a train bomb blast in
Spain when he was going for his medical check up in 2004.Please copy
and paste this Internet link for more information
on the incident
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4340881.stm Our life together
as man and wife lasted for three decades without
child. My husband and I made a vow to uplift the down-trodden and the
less-privileged.

I can adduce this to the fact that he needed a Child from this
relationship, which never came. When my late husband
was alive, he made a safe deposit of 3 Million Great British Pounds
which were derived from his vast estates and
investment in capital market with bank here in Europe.Recently, my
Doctor told me that I have limited days to live due
to the cancerous problems I am suffering from.I have decided to donate
his 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, and persons who prove
to be genuinely handicapped financially.Being aware of the bourgeois
religion of my relatives and the misused of his
previous investment and ventures. I have decided to put smile on the
face of the less privileged. Reach me with my
private email:silva.robert.147@hotmail.com


Sincerely Yours,

Lady Silva Robert

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