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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. Never ever send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally. )
  • "the consignment" (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)
  • "trunk box" (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)
  • "million 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)
  • "god fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• This email message is a "dying widow" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs Sanedra Paul" <sandrapaul4christ@hamdard.net.pk>
Reply-To: sandrapaul4christ@yahoo.es
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:36:43 +0500
Subject: CAN I TRUST YOU ?


From : Mrs Sandra Paul

I was married to a foreign Contractors Paul Alexandria
who worked with Chevron Texaco in West Africa for
twenty years before he died in the year2005, May be
you must have heard about him in the oil firm. We were
married for thirty-seven years without a child. He operate
an account with a finance house who perished in a plane crash
and the whole passengers aboard 2005.

Before his death we were both born again Christians.Since
his death I decided not to re-marry. When my late husband
was alive he deposited the sum of $10 million TEN MILLION
DOLLARS) with a security company in West Africa Presently,
this money is still with the security company and the management
just wrote me as the beneficiary to come forward to receive the
money or rather issue a letter of authorization to somebody to
receive it on my behalf if I can not come over.

Presently, I'm 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 the proceed at the end of every year distributed among
charity organization.I want a person that is God fearing that
will use this money to fund churches, orphanages and widows
propagating the word of God and to ensure that the house of God
is maintained.

The Bible made us to understand that blessed is the hand that
giveth.I took this decision because I know that there are a lot 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 security company . I will also issue you a letter of authority
that will prove you as the new beneficiary of this fund. You are
to help me invest this funds into real estate and stocks.You will
be entitled to 40% of every profit you make in a year.
Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated herein.

Note. You can contact the security company Correspondence
office in West Africa for verification on the consignment as the funds
was deposited in a trunk box as a consignment, and the consignment
as code is 55506 name of depositor Alexandria Paul, present beneficiary
Mrs Sandra Paul .

Hoping to hearing from you soon.
Waiting for your reply
Yours in Christ,
Mrs Sandra Paul

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