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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million 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)
  • "god fearing " (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.
  • mrsjoyceballo88@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mrsjoyceballo <mrsjoyceballo80000@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrsjoyceballo88@yahoo.fr
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:48:43 -0700
Subject: Dear Friend.


Dear Friend.

Greetings in the name of God / Allah,Pls let this not sound strange to you,
for my family lawyer who would have handled this executorship of my will on
my behalf, died early this year after a protracted illness.I prayed and got
your email ID from your country's guestbook.I am Mrs. joyceballo from Oman,
I am 58 years old.i am suffering from a protracted cancer of the lungs which
has also affected my brain cells as a result of complications. from all
indication my condition is really deteriorating and it is quite obvious
that,according to my doctors i have been advised that i may not live for
the next two months, this is because the cancer stage has gotten to a
critical and life threatening stage.

I was brought up in an orphanage home as a child of circumstance,having been
abandoned at birth by my teenage biological mother and taken to an orphanage
home by a good samaritan.i was married to my late husband Mr.Gamal ballo for
twenty years without a child.my husband was hypertensive and died of
cardiac arrest.

Since my husbands death i decided not to re-marry,when my ailment became
terrible, i sold off all our choice properties and personal belongings
including a shopping mall,an hotel, shares, bonds,jewelries and other
valuable family treasures and deposited the proceeds amounting to
USD$10.2million dollars with First Inland Bank Plc.Presently, this money is
still lodged with the Bank, and the management and board of directors of the
bank just wrote me as the sole owner to come forward to receive the money
after having kept it for so long a time in their coffers,or that i can issue
a letter of authorization to somebody to receive it on my behalf since I can
not come over and claim the funds due largely to my illness or they get it
confisticated.

Presently, I'm writing you with my laptop in a hospital in switzerland
,located at fulham road in west switzerland.It is the leading cancer
treatment hospital in the world. I have been undergoing treatment for cancer
of the lungs. my doctors like i said earlier told me that I have only two
months to live.It is my last wish therefore to see that 70% of this money
which amounts to usd$7,140,000.00 (seven million one hundred and forty
thousand dollars only) is invested to any organisation of your choice and
distributed each year among charitable Organizations,the poor and the
motherless babies homes. you can also extend to churches and mosques,if you
wish. 30% of the money which amounts to usd$3,060,000.00(three million sixty
thousand dollars only) is for your personal use.

I want you as a God fearing person,to take it upon yourself and use this
money for the aforementioned purposes, i took this decision in other to help
humanity in my little capacity,before i rest in peace in the bosom of the
almighty, because according to my physicians my time will soon be up.As soon
as I receive your reply I shall give you the official contact of the First
Inland Bank plc officials,to enable you reach them without delays.I will
also issue you a letter of authorization that will prove you as the new
beneficiary of my will. the funds have an open beneficiary mandate,and as
such it is whom i authorise to act on my behalf that the bank will recognise
and release the funds to.Please assure me that you will act accordingly as
I stated herein.

Please reply me through these my private email Addresses:
mrsjoyceballo88@yahoo.fr
hoping to hear from you soon.

Yours Sincerely,

MRS.JOYCE BALLO

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