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

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs Mary Parker" <info@parker.net>
Reply-To: maryparker_mrs@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 03:08:50 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: In Good Faith




Dear Beloved in Christ,
I am Mrs Mary Parker,suffering from cancerous ailment.I am married to
Mr.Robert Parker,my husband worked with Chevron/Texaco in the United
Kingdom for twenty years before he died in the year 2003. My late husband
deposited the sum of £ 17.5 Million (Seventeen Million Five Hundred
Thousand Pounds) with a Bank in United Kingdom.Recently,my Doctor told me
that I have limited days to live due to the stroke and 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 and charities worldwide.I took this decision because I do not have
any child that will inherit this money and my husband relatives are
bourgeois and very wealthy persons and I do not want my husband hard
earned money to be misused.Awaiting your urgent reply via my
email.address:maryparker_mrs@yahoo.co.uk
With God all things are possible.
Your Sister in Christ,
Mrs. Mary Parker
Correo Revisado y Vacunado por el Sistema de Seguridad del Grupo MVS Comunicaciones.

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