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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: "Mary bill" <gtmary_b@msn.com>
Reply-To: gtmary_b@myway.com
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 15:57:39 +0000
Subject: REPLY URGENTLY

Dear Beloved 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.
Mary Bill from Holland. I am married to Dr.Harry Bill a Kenya who worked
with a construction company in Asia for twenty Years before he died in the
tsunami disasters, we were married but without Any children.

Since his death I decided not to re-marry and presently I am 70 Years
old.When my late husband was Alive he deposited the sum of $9.5M. (Nine
Million Five Hundred Thousand U.S. Dollars) with a Security
Company.Presently this money is still with the Security Company 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.Mary Bill
As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the Security
Company.

I will also issue you a letter of authority that will prove you as The new
beneficiary of this fund.Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I
stated here in 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.

God Bless You,
Mother Mary Bill

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