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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 by the Scam-O-Matic 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)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • ubk_jac@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?suzanne?= <ubk_jac@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: suzanne_@myway.com
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 05:45:58 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Dear Beloved Friend,


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: ubk_jac@yahoo.co.uk

Dear Beloved Friend,


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. suzanne Pointer from spain. I am married to Late David

Pointer of Holland who worked with Julius Berger construction


company (a famous construction company) in Africa for many Years


before he died in the 27th January 2002 bomblast at our Ikeja


resident on his way to work. we were married with two Lovely


children (kelly and Cynthia) who were victims of the December 17


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 68 Years old. When my late


husband was Alive he deposited the sum of $15M USD. (Fifteen million


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.

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


husband accounts and distribute the money to charity organization,


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

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 husband David Pointer as David memorial fund.

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 and


the deposit slip 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,



Mother Suzanne Pointer



- suzanne

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