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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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Fraud email example:

From: "patricia casillas" <casillas@patriciaworld.net>
Reply-To: casillas_patriciaworld@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 03:59:56 +0000
Subject: Mrs. Patricia Casillas

Dear Friend,

Let me first of all inform you, I got your email address from a mail
Directory and decided to mail you for a permission to go ahead.

I am Mrs. Patricia Cedillas from Mexico. I am married to Dr.Raymond Casillas
who worked with a construction company in Asia for twenty Years before he
died in the tsunami disasters, we were married but withoutAny children.

Since his death I decided not to re-marry. When my late husband was Alive he
deposited the sum of 20.6 million dollars (Twenty million six Hundred
thousand United State Dollars) with a bank in the Europe.

Presently this money is still with the bank and the management just Wrote me
as the beneficiary to come forward to receive the money or rather Issue a
letter of authorization to somebody to receive it on my behalf If I cannot
come over.

I am presently in a hospital where I have been undergoing treatment Cancer
of the lungs in a hospital , I have since lost my ability To talk and my
doctors have told me that I have only a few months to Live.

I want a person that is trustworthy that will utilize 90% of this money to
fund churches, orphanages and widows around the world but in my name "
Mrs.Patricia Cedillas"

As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the Bank.I
will also issue you a letter of authority that will prove you as The
newbeneficiary of this fund.

Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated herein and Keep
this contact confidential till such a time this funds get to your
Custody,this is to ensure that nothing jeopardizes my last wish on
Earth.

I await your urgent reply.

Regards,

Mrs. Patricia Casillas

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