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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.
• 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.
  • mmwiltord@yahoo.co.id (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?utf-8?q?mary=20wiltord?= <mmwiltord@yahoo.co.id>
Reply-To: marywiltordx2@yahoo.it
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 06:36:07 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Greetings


Saya punya alamat email baru!Sekarang Anda bisa mengirim email kepada saya di: mmwiltord@yahoo.co.id



- My beloved one in christ,Greetings to you in the most wonderful name of our Lord and savior JesusChrist .His richest blessings shall be upon you forever.I am Mrs Julius M Wiltord,I am 51 years old from Netherlands,I am deaf and suffering from a long time cancer of the Lungs which also affectedmy brain,from allindication my conditions is really deteriorating and it is quiteobvious that,according to my doctors they have advised me that i maynot live for the nexttwo months,this is because the cancer stagehas gotten to avery bad stage.I was brought up from a motherless babies home, was married to my latehusband for twenty years without a child.My husband died in afatalmotor accident.Before his death we were true Christians. Since his death I decided not to re-marry,I sold all my inherited belongings and deposited all the sum of $18.5million dollars with a SecurityCompany.Presently, this money is still with them and the management just wrote me as the true owner to come forward!
to receive the money for keeping it so long or rather issue a letter of authorization to somebody to receive it on my behalf since I can not come over because of my illness or they get it confisticated. Presently, I'm with my laptop in a hospital where I have been under going 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 fewmonths to live.It is my last wish to see that this money is invested to any organisation of your choice and distributed eachyearamongthecharityorganization,the poor and the motherless babies home where i come from.I want you God fearing, to also use this money to fund churches,orphanages and widows.I took this decision, before i rest in peace because my time will soon be up.As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of theSecurityCompany.I will also issue you a letter of authority that willmprove you as the new beneficiary of my fund. Please assure me that you wil!
l act accordingly as I stated herein.I shall wait at your prayerful re
ply.Yours in His Service,Mrs Julius M Wiltord

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