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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 merchant" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Jurgen Sterk" <jurgensterk_@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jurgenssterk@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:45:46 +0000
Subject: Best regard

Dear Partner,

My name is JURGEN STERK, a Swedish national I have been diagnosed with
Esophageal cancer .It has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and Right
now I have only about a few months to live,
according to medical Experts. I have not particularly lived my life so well,
as I never really cared for anyone (not even myself) but my business. Though
I am very rich, I was never generous, I was always hostile to people and
only focused on my business as that was the only thing 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. Now that God
has called me, 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 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,
Somalia and Malaysia. Now that my health has deteriorated so badly, I cannot
do this myself anymore. I once 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 of
Twenty Eight

Million dollars ($28, 000, 000, 00) that I have with a finance/Security
Company abroad. I will want you to help me collect this deposit and dispatch
it to charity organizations. N/B: KINDLY NOTE THAT 20% of these funds must
go to the tsunami victims, 10% should go to the victims of hurricanes in the
United States of America and another 5% for your effort and time.
Please note that all correspondence as regards this project should be

I await your prompt response.

Best regard

JURGEN S. STERK

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