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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:
  • "utmost confidentiality" (they don't want anyone to point out to you that this is a scam)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "lukasconsulta@ozu.es" <lukasconsulta@ozu.es>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:14:51 -1000
Subject: Donation From Catharina A. H. Sies

Hello Dear
My name is Mrs.Catharina Augusta Hermina Sies; I am a dying woman who has
decided to donate what I have to you/church. I am 59 years old and I was
diagnosed for cancer for about 2 years ago, immediately after the death of
my husband, who has left me everything he worked for and because the
doctors told me I will not live longer than some weeks because of my
health, I decided to WILL/donate the sum of $1,400,000 (One million four
hundred
thousand dollars) to you for the good work of humanity, and also to help
the motherless and less privilege and also for the assistance of the
widows.
I wish you all the best and may the good Lord bless you abundantly, and
please use the funds well and always extend the good work to others.
Contact my lawyer (Barr. Martin Lukas) with this pecified
email:lukasconsulta@ozu.es and tell him that I have WILLED($1,400,000.00)
to you and I have also notified him. I know I don’t know you but I have
been directed to do this. Thanks and God bless.
NB: I will appreciate your utmost confidentiality in this matter until the
task is accomplished as I don't want anything that will jeopardize my
last wish.
From Mrs.Catharina Augusta Hermina Sies.

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