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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:
  • "million us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • vicsal1@zipmail.com.br (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: vicsal2@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:50:21 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22CHARITY=20FUND=22?=

"CHARITY FUND"

Good day and God bless,

Greetings to you in the name of God Almighty. I am former Mrs. Memunat Abdulah
saleh, now I am Mrs. Victoria Abdullah Saleh a widow to Late Abdullah Saleh.

I am an old woman, suffering from cancer. From all indications, my condition
is really deteriorating and is quite obvious that I may not live long, because
the cancer
stage has gotten to a very severe stage.

My late husband and my son Nasim, died in an air crash on the 31st October
1999 in an Egyptian airline Boeing 990 with other passengers on board. You
can confirm this fact from the website which was aired by the BBC WORLD
NEWS:

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm) and My only surviving
daughter died in BOMB ATTACK LONDON.

My late husband was very wealthy and after his death, I inherited all his
business and wealth.

My personal physician told me that I may not live for so long and I am so
scared about this. So, I now decided to
divide part of this wealth, by contributing to the well being of less privileged
people and handicapped in the society of world America, Canada, Africa,
Europe and Asian Countries.

This mission, for no doubt will be tasking, it had made me to recently
relocate to BRITAIN where I am taking treatment presently.

I selected you for this Purpose and prayed over it, I am willing to donate
the sum of $7,300,000.00 Million US Dollars to you for the development of
the well being of handicapped in the society and also asaids for the less
privileged around your country, and i have map out $1,700.000.00 for your
own personal use to help me for this work.

Please note that, this fund is lying in a Security Bank. Therefore immediate
application for the transfer of the money in your name or your home.

Please, do not reply me if you have the intention of using this fund for
personal use, than enhancement of the comfort of the Handicapped.

Lastly, I want you/your home to be praying for me as regards my entire life
and my health because I have come to find out since my spiritual birth lately
that wealth
acquisition without God one's life is vanity upon vanity.

I await your reply via my private email address
:: vicsal1@zipmail.com.br

Yours In Faith.

Mrs. Victoria Abdullah Saleh

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