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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: "Yousif Abdullah Fahad " <yafahad@netscape.net>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 23:38:54 +0000
Subject: HELP THE NEEDY

My names are Yousif Abdullah Fahad, A Businessman in the United Arab
Emirates. I have been diagnosed with prostate cancer and esophageal cancer
that was discovered very late due to my laxity in caring for my health. It
has defiled all form of medicine, treatment and right now, I have only about
a limited time to live according to medical experts.

I have not particularly lived a good life, as I never really cared for
anyone not even myself but for the money I make from my business. Though I
was wealthy, I was never generous because I was always hostile to people and
only focus on my business. 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 before.

Now that I know my time is near, I have willed and given most of my assets
to my immediate and extended family members and as well as Schools in the
United Arab Emirates. I have decided to give aims to the less privilege and
some charity organizations, I want this to be one of the last good deeds I
have done on earth.

So far, I have distributed funds among some charity organizations in the
United Arab Emirates, and some other countries in Asia. Now that my health
has deteriorated badly, I can't do this my self any more. Some time ago I
asked members of my family to donate some money to less privilege homes in
Iran and East Europe, which was in my account in Dubai but they refused and
kept the money to themselves.

Hence, I don't trust any member of my family, as they seem not to be
contended with what I gave them. The last of my money which is a great sum
of money that I deposited with a finance company in Europe.I want you to
help me make claim of this deposit and distribute it among the less
privilege and charity organizations and let them know that it was i Yousif
Abdullah Fahad that is making this donation.

I am sending you this email message from my hospital bed where I wait for
my time to come. I pray that God use you to support and assist me with good
heart.

I will appreciate your utmost confidentiality in this project until the
task is fulfilled as I don't want anything that will jeopardize my last
wish. and also I will be contacting with you by email as I don't want my
relation or anybody to know because they are always with me.

Yours truly,
Yousif Abdullah Fahad.

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