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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.
• This email message is a next of kin 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.
  • karen_777mouston@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "secretaria.mestrado" <secretaria.mestrado@fecap.br>
Reply-To: karen_777mouston@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:14:30 -0300
Subject: Dear Beneficiary

Hello
Getting your contact was not an easy task because since I am not computer
literate, I ordered an expert to seek a fellow very far away and he went
to the institute of International Business to apply and he paid them the
charges.

I am Lady Karen, married to Sir Alan Mouston an English man 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 6 Million Great British Pounds which were derived
from his vast estates and investment in capital market with security
company 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 this fund
to you and want you to use this gift which comes from my husband's 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: karen_777mouston@hotmail.com
Sincerely Yours,
Karen Mouston.

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