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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)
• 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.
  • mrsmarriasaint1@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "marria saint" <marriasaint16@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrsmarriasaint1@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:51:45 +0500
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. Marria Saint from Spain. I am married to Mr Saint a Ngerian 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 61 Years
old.When my late husband was Alive he deposited the sum of 5 million
dollars (Five 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.
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. Marria Saint "

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 herein 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 through this email adress mrsmarriasaint1@yahoo.com

Regards,

Mother Marria Saint.

God Bless You.

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