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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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Fraud email example:

From: "jean brown" <jeanbrown2004@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jeanbrown_1960@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 05:10:09 +0000
Subject: FOR HUMANITY

Dear Good friend.
I don,t really know who you are ,but peace be unto you as you read

this letter. My Instinct tells me that I can trust you by my

proposition.I got your contact through internet directory and My

Instinct directed me to send this money to you.
I am a widow and a devoted christian, my name is MRS JEAN BROWN

from UNITED KINGDOM. Since my husband died ,I have been suffering

from arthritics and lately doctors have diagonised me with

terminal cancer which left me with approximately twelve months to

live.
I am currently on wheelchair and being looked after by a nurse and

some of my late husband ,s relatives in turns.Before my husband

died,he left some money to the tone of USD$4,800,000,00(Four

million ,eight hundred thousand dollars)and he made me promised

him that it should be used for humanitarian work,because we have

no children and he does n,t want his brothers to lay hand on

it,since they don’t believe in God, they have a different vision.
This money is currently in a vault with a bank in EUROPE. If you

will promise me that you will use this money to achieve the wish

of my husband and me,then I will instruct the bank to release the

content of the vault in your name.
Reply me through my email address for us to discuss so that you

can go and claim this money before i die.
May God bless you as you walk in the light and glory.
Thank you.
Yours in Vineyard,
MRS JEAN BROWN

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