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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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Some comments about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a "dying widow" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "ruth bill" <ruth_bill5@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: pointerv@myway.com
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:59:10 +0000
Subject: Dear Beloved Friend,

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.Ruth Bill from Holland. I
married to Harry Bill a Kenyan 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 71 Years
old.When my late husband was Alive he deposited the sum of
$16.5M. (sixteen 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.Ruth
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.
Regards,
Mrs. Ruth Bill
God Bless You

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