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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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • ladytorhug@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: torethhughes_2@mchsi.com (Lady Toreth Hughes)
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:54:45 +0000
Subject: GREETINGS


GREETINGS MY BELOVED,

Getting your contact was not an easy task because since I am not computer
literate, I ordered an expert to seek a fellow very far away and he went to the
institute of International Business to apply and he paid them the charges. That
is how I found you.

I am Lady Toreth, married to Sir Richard Hughes an Englishman who is dead; he
died in a train bomb blast in Spain in 2004. Please copy and paste this
Internet link for more information on the incident.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4340881.stm

Our life together as man and wife lasted for three decades without child. My
husband and I made a vow to uplift the down-trodden and the less-privileged.

When my late husband was alive, he made a safe deposit of a certain sum which I
will disclose to you on my plan on what I will want you to do. This fund was
derived from his vast estates and investment in capital market) with his bank
in Europe.

Recently, my Doctor told me that I have limited days to live due to the
cancerous problems I am suffering from. I have decided to donate this fund to
you and want you to use this gift which comes from my husbands’ effort to fund
the upkeep of widows,orphans etc.

my husband relatives are bourgeois and very wealthy persons and I do not want
my husband's hard earned money to be misused.

You can contact me through my personal email address: ladytorhug@yahoo.com.hk

Sincerely Yours,

Toreth Hughes

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