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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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• This email message is a "dying merchant" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Pastor McJohnson Dee" <pastordee1@gala.net>
Reply-To: pmdpastor@googlemail.com
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 06:20:17 -0700
Subject: Please let me hear from you my Beloved One


The Royal London Hospital
Whitechapel Road
Whitechapel
London
E1 1BB



Dear Beloved One,

As you read this, I don't want you to feel sorry for me, because I believe
everyone will die someday.

I have been diagnosed with esophageal cancer, which was discovered very
late, due to my laxity in carrying for my health. It has defiled all forms
of medicine, and right now I have only about a few months to live,according
to medical experts. I have since lost my power of speech and can only manage
to write now; as that has been the only way I am able to
communicate.

I have not particularly lived my life so well, as I never really cared for
anyone not even myself but my business. Though I am very rich, I was never
generous, I was always hostile to people and only focus on my business as
that is the only thing I cared for. But now I regret all this as I now know
that there is more to life than just wanting to have or make all the money
in the world.

I believe when God gives me a second chance to come to this world I would
live my life a different way from how I have lived it. Now that I know my
time is near, I have willed and given most of my properties and assets to my
immediate and extended family members and as well as a few close friends.

I want God to be merciful to me and accept my soul and so, I have decided to
give alms to charity organizations, as I want this to be one of the last
good deeds I did on earth. So far, I have distributed money to some charity
organizations in UK, Brazil and Zambia. Now that my health has deteriorated
so badly, I cannot do this my self any more. I asked members of my family to
close my accounts and donate the money, which I have there to charity
organization in Bulgaria; they refused and kept the money to themselves.

Hence, I do not trust them anymore, as they seem not to be contended with
what I have left for them. The last of my money which only few of them knows
of is the huge cash deposit that I have with in Uk I will want you to help
me collect this deposit and dispatched it to charity organizations.

Regards,

Thank you very much and God bless you and your family for remembering me.

Pastor McJohnson Dee
Hospital

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