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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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Please note about this email:

• It is a dying merchant scam (0 typical phrases found).
  

Fraud email example:

From: "hassan adams" <hassan@hassanadams.net>
Reply-To: adams_hassan2@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 03:38:19 +0000
Subject: Help

Dear Sir/Madam,

My name is Hassan Adams a merchant in U.A.E; I have been diagnosed with esophageal cancer. It has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and right now I am on life support, having only about a few weeks to live, according to medical experts. I have not particularly lived my life so well, as I never really cared for anyone but my business. I was never generous, I was always hostile to people and only focused on my business as that was the only world 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. I have willed and given most of my property and assets to my immediate and extended family members as well as a few close friends. I lost my only son (abdul Adams), his wife and two children in plane crash from USA to Egypt .hence I am left with no heir to inherit my wealth!!!

I want God to be merciful to me and accept my soul so, I have decided to give alms to charity

organizations, as I want this to be one of the last good deeds I do on earth. So far, I have distributed money to some charity organizations in the U.A.E, Algeria and Malaysia, and India. Now that my health has deteriorated so badly, I cannot do this myself anymore.

Two months ago, I asked members of my family to close one of my accounts and distribute the money which I have there to charity organization in Bulgaria and Pakistan; 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 no one knows of is the huge cash deposit that I have with a finance/Security Company in Europe. I will want you to collect this deposit and dispatched it to charity organizations (I will disclose the amount when you have agreed to help me out). May GOD help you as you do this? Please note that I have not serviced that deposit since after the death of my family in the plane crash. I will give you all the details you will require as soon as I receive your immediate response.

God be with you.

Prof. Hassan Adams (President)

Horus Geoscience LTD

CORNER ROAD 206 & 245 DEGLA,

MAADI, CAIRO, U.A.E

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