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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:
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
• This email message is a "dying widow" 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.
  • mrs.kimtina65@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MRS.KIM TINA" <mrs.kimtina65@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: kimtina1966@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 06:45:39 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Is me Tina.


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: mrs.kimtina65@yahoo.com



- From: Mrs, Tina Kim, St Thomas' Hospital,56,st Margaret Terrace, Plum stead, London ,SE1 7EH. Dearest in Christ. May the great peace and love of Our Lord God be with you always! Though i have not considered this medium to be the best manner to have approached you on this issue being that the Internet has been greatly abused over the recent years and is very unsecured for information of vital importance. I have decided to take the chance seeing that no other means could have been faster and more efficient than the E-mail. I am the above named person from America but now undergoing medical treatment in the hospital in London. I am married to Dr.Davis Kim. who worked with America Embassy in South Africa for Nine years before he died in the year 2005. We were married for Sixteen years without a child. He died after a protracted illness. When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of $10.6 Million (Ten-Million six hundred thousand U.S. Dollars)with one finance /investm!
ent Firm. Presently, this money is still with the Finance House. Recently, my Doctor told me that I would not last for the next three months due to cancer problem. Though what disturbs me most is my stroke. Having known my condition I decided to donate this fund to church or better still an individual that will utilize thismoney the way I am going to instruct here in. I want a church or individual that will use this fund for a 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 don't have any child that will inherit this money, hence the reason for taking this bold decision. I will give you my Lawyer telephone number for easy communication when I hear from you positively. Remember to include your contact information for easy communication. Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated here in. Yours in C!
hrist. Mrs, Tina Kim.

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