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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:
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "god fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• 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.
  • fatimadove888@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mawuvi prosper <mawu_prospar03@yahoo.ca>
Reply-To: fatimadove888@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:05:03 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Alsalam alikum warahmet allah ........Kindly get to me ungently (From hadjia fatima faris)


Alsalam alikum warahmet allah (From hadjia fatima faris)

May (Allah) Bless bless you my good friend.

Please help me to use this money for the less privileged.
privacy contact at fatimadove888@gmail.com,

Greetings to you and your family in the name of (Allah) . In my search for a reliable and god fearing person and having gotten your contact through prayers and painstaking efforts I have decided to seek your help in carrying out my last wishes.
My name is Hajia Fatima Faris, I'm a 56 years old woman, origin from Ghana and residing in Togo, west Africa, I and my husband was an engineers and used to work with shell under contract and also a merchant and owned two businesses abroad before the sudden death of my husband and three children.
My husband and three children died in a car accident six years ago. Before this happened,all i always think about is business, and money making was all I live for. I never really cared about other values in life. But since the loss of my precious family, I have found a new desire to assist helpless families since all the treasures of my life has gone. I have been helping orphans in orphanage/motherless homes. I have also donated some money for humanitarian needs in Sudan, South Africa, Cameroon, Guinea Bissua, and Liberia. Only recently I saw on television the colossal loss of properties and livelihood people in Canberra, Australia through fire.

I was moving with great pity and compassion that I decided to make this contribution on assisting people over there and middle easth where children needs help, I kept Seven Million three hundred thousand United States Dollars{US$7.3Million} in a long-term deposit account in a Bank here in Togo .
Presently, I'm in a Chinesse hospital here in Togo where I have been undergoing treatment for oesophagi cancer at Shanghai Medical Center Lome,Togo. I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have only few months to live. It is my last wish to see this money distributed to victims of the fire outbreak in Australia, war affected countries and children that needs food and other charity organization. i don't want to relate to my family or friends Because relatives and friends have plundered so much of my wealth since my illness, I cannot live with the agony entrusting this huge responsibility to any of them.

Please i need your information so that i will send it to the Bank to contact you, I beg you in the name of god to help me collect the deposit and distributes it accordingly. Use your judgment to distribute the money and keep 20% of it to yourself because of your effort and good work . Feel free to reimburse yourself when you have the money for any cost you incure during the process of collecting and distributing the money. If you are willing to help, please reply as soon as possible. May the good lord bless you. Because of my cancer illness i was advised not to use phone, i will give you my Lawyer number so that you will always conact him through phone for any legal advise and message you want to pass to me and my Lawyer will also be calling you if there is any emergency.
Kindly contact me via fatimadove888@gmail.com
Thanks, may (Allah) be with you as you contact with goodfaith in the name of (Allah).
Your's faithfully
Hajia Fatima Faris


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