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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • venuskhan2000@yahoo.no (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?venus?= <venuskhan2000@yahoo.no>
Reply-To: venusk25@myway.com
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 01:29:16 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: BELOVED


Jeg har ny e-postadresse!Nå kan du sende meg e-post på: venuskhan2000@yahoo.no

Beloved,


First I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by

virtue of it's nature as being utterly confidential and top secret.

Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one

apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring that this is real and

genuine

I am Mrs. venus khan, I am married to Late harry khan

A German who worked with Julius Berger (a construction

company in Africa) for many Years before he died in the 27th January 2002 bomblast

in our resident at Ikeja . we were married with two Lovely children (kelly and grace)

who were victims of the December 17 2005 Sosoliso plane crash on their way to Port

Harcourt to spend their Christmas holiday with Me. Since the death of my husband,

I decided not to re-marry and presently

I am 70 Years old. When my late husband was Alive he deposited the sum

of $25M USD. (Twenty Five Million US 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, I have since

lost my ability to talk and my doctors have

told me that I have only 5 months to Live.


I want a person that is trustworthy that will utilize

80% of this money to fund churches, orphanages and widows around the

world but in the name of my late children as kellygrace memorial

fund. As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the

contact of the Security Company. 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 you. This is to ensure that nothing jeopardizes my last wish on Earth.

I await your urgent reply.

Regards,

mother venus




- venus

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