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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  • suzzy_mk08@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: suzana mark <suzzy_mk08@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: suzanamark147@sify.com
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 03:27:05 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: From: Mrs suzana mark of norway.


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: suzzy_mk08@yahoo.com

From: Mrs suzana mark of norway.



I am Mrs Susana mark of norway.



I was married to Dr. frank mark who worked with Chevron Texaco in

Nigeria for twenty years before he died in the year 2000, May be you must have heard about him in the oil firm.We were married for thirty-seven years without a child. He died during one of the riot in the Niger delta region of Nigeria. He was held hostage and slain to death by protesting youths of the region.



Before his death we were both born again Christians. Since his death I

decided not to re-marry. When my late husband was alive he deposited

the sum of $9,500,000,00 Million with a security company in [Abidjan] COTE D'IOVRE

Presently, this money is still with the 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 mybehalf if I can not come over.

Presently, I'm with my laptop in a hospital where I have been

undergoing treatment for cancer of the lungs. I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have only a few months to live.It is my last wish to see that this money is investedtheproceed at the end of every year distributed among charity organization.



I want a person that is God fearing that will use this money to fund

churches, orphanages and widows propagating the word of God and to ensure that the house of God is maintained. The Bible made us to understand that blessed is the hand that giveth. I took this decision because I know that there are a lot of poor people suffering from different kind of disease and nobody to come to their aid.

With God all things are possible. As soon as I receive your reply I

shall give you the contact of the bank. I will also issue you a letter of authority that will prove you as the new beneficiary of this fund. You are to help me invest this funds into real estate and stocks. You will be entitled to 10% of every profit you make in a year.

Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated herein.

Note. You can contact the security company’s Correspondence office in [Abidjan] COTE D 'IOVRE for verification on the consignment as the funds was deposited

in a trunk box as a consignment, and the consignment’s code is

“555” name of depositor frank mark, present beneficiary suzana mark,

Hoping to hearing from you soon.

Waiting for your reply



Yours in Christ,

Mother suzana mark.



- suzana mark

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