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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: "stella castillos001" <stellacastillos001@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: stella_castillos2@yahoo.co.in
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 15:20:05 -0900
Subject: From Mrs Luz Taborda

>From Mrs Luz Taborda

Warm Greetings!

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 a
proffesional database found in internet while searching for a reliable
and honest person that will be an annointed steward in a vision very
dear to me.

I am Mrs.Luz Stella Castillo Taborda. person from Colombia undergoing
medical treatment. I am married to Dr. Castillo Tarboda who was a gun
runner supplying arms and ammunition to warring factions in Africa
before he died in the year 2004.

We were married for eleven years without a child.He died after a
brief illness that lasted for only four days. 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$37.6Million (Thirty seven
Million, six hundred thousand U.S.Dollars) with a Deposit company.
Presently,this money is still with the Deposit Company. Recently,my
doctor told me that I would not last for the next three months due to
cancer problem. Though whatdisturbs me most is my partial paralysis. Having
known my condition I decided to donate this fund to an organisation or
individual that will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct here
in. I want an organisation or individual that will use this to fund, women
and youth groups, victims of war, environmental
protection,charities,orphanages and widows . It is said that blessed is the
hand that giveth.

I took this decision because I don't have any child that will inherit
this money and as a part of restitution for the attrocities of my
husband which I tacitly supported. 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.If you consider yourself adequately
equipped morally and spiritually for this mission,please send me a
brief memo of how you intend to use the funds.
Thank you and God bless.

Yours sincerely,
Mrs.Luz Stella Castillo Taborda

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