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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:

• 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.

Fraud email example:

From: james cole <jam_40z@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mary_pointer02z@yahoo.com,
UNEXPECTED_DATA_AFTER_ADDRESS@.SYNTAX-ERROR
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:33:03 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Dear Beloved ,


Dear Beloved ,
GOD BLESS YOU,I am Mrs. mary pointer. I am married to Dr.H pointer 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 67 Years old.
When my late husband was Alive he deposited the sum of $9.5M. (Nine Million
Five Hundred Thousand U.S. 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
churches,orphanages and widows around the world but in my name Mrs. mary
pointer 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 here 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.
Regards
Mother mary pointer

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