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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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• This email message is a "dying widow" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "LUZ STELLA TARBODA" <ladytarboda@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: ladytarboda@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 23:23:53 -1000
Subject: LET ME KNOW

>From Mrs.Luz Stella
Hello my dear friend,
Forgive my indignation if this message comes to you as a surprise and may
offend your personality for contacting you
without your prior consent and writing through this channel.I got your
contact from searching for a reliable and honest person that will assist me
safeguard fund .divinely inspired to pick your name among other names found
after
series of prayers/fasting for Gods direction. I am Mrs.Luz Stella Castillo
Taborda. person from Colombia undergoing medical treatment. I was married to
Dr. Castillo Tarboda who worked with Malaysia embassy in South Africa for
nine years before he died in the year 2000.We were married for twenty 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.When my
late husband was alive he deposited the sum of $10.6 (Ten Million six
hundred thousand U.S.Dollars)with one finance/security company in
EUROPE.Presently,this money is still with the Security Company.Recently,my
Doctor told me that I have six months to live as I am terminally ill with
cancer.Though what disturbs me most is my partial paralysis. Having known my
condition I decided to donate this fund to a church/mosque or better still a
Christian/Moslem individual that will utilize this money the way I am going
to instruct here in. I want a church/Mosque or individual that will use this
to fund churches/Mosque, orphanages and widows propagating the word of God
and to ensure that the house of God is maintained.They said 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's relatives are not Christians and I
don't want my husband's hard earned money to be mis-used 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
bossom of God.If you will be of assistance,I will surely appreciate and
reward you for your kindness in rendering help to a dying woman.
Luz Stella

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