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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:
  • "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)
  • "god fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
  • "remain blessed" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• 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.
  • mrsmaryjones9020@gmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "" <adimmo@iol.cz>
Reply-To: mrsmaryjones9020@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:06:31 GMT
Subject: Donation for the less priveledged




From: Mrs Mary Jones of Kuwait

RE: Donation for the less priveledged.

I am the above named person from Kuwait. I am married to Dr.
Harry Jones who worked with Kuwait Embassy in Ivory Coast for
nine years before he died in the year
2000.We were married for eleven years without a child.
He died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days.
Before his death we were both born again christians. Since his
death I decided not to re-marry or get a child outside my
matrimonial home which the Bible is against. When my late husband
was alive he deposited the sum of $8.6Million (Eight Million six hundred
thousand U.S.Dollars) with a finance/security company in Europe.
Presently, this money is still with the Security Company and the
management just wrote me as the beneficiary to come forward to
receive the trunk box of money or rather issue a letter of authorisation to somebody to receive it
on my behalf if I can not come over.
Presently, I'm in a hospital where I have been undergoing
treatment for oesophageal cancer. I have since lost my ability to
talk and my doctors have told me that I have only a few weeks to
live. It is my last wish to see this money distributed to victims
of this
fire outbreak in Australia and other charity organizations.
Because relatives and friends have plundered so much of my wealth
since my illness, I cannot live with the agony of entrusting
this huge responsibility to any of them.
Please,I beg you in the name of God to help me collect the
deposit and the interest accrued from the company and distribute
it accordingly.
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 don't have any child that will
inherit this money and my husband relatives are not Christians
and I don't want my husband's hard earned money to be misused by
unbelievers. I don't want a situation where this money will be
used in an ungodly manner.
Hence the reason for taking this bold decision. I am not afraid
of death hence I know where I am going. I know that I am going to
be in the bosom of the Lord.
Exodus 14 VS 14 says that the lord will fight my case and I shall
hold my peace. I don't need any telephone communication in this
regard because of my soundless voice and presence of my husband's relatives around me always. I
don't want them to know about this development.
With God all things are possible. As soon as I receive your reply
I shall give you the contact of the Finance/ Security Company in
Europe. I will also issue you a letter of authority that will
prove you as the new beneficiary of this fund. I want you and the
church to always pray for me because the lord is my shephard.
My happiness is that I lived a life of a worthy Christian.
however that wants to serve the Lord must serve him in spirit and
truth. Please always be prayerful all through your life. Any
delay in your reply will give me room in sourcing for another
person for this same purpose.
Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated
herein.
Hoping to hearing from you soon.
Remain blessed in the name of the Lord and carefully respond
through the below email herein.

mrsmaryjones9020@gmail.com

Yours in Christ,
Mrs Mary Jones

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