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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:
  • "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a next of kin 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.
  • roselynpowell_81z@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Madam Roseline Powell <madam_r_pwll81zq@live.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 15:13:45 +0000
Subject: Reply urgent........from(Mrs Roseline powell ) Scotland



Beloved,I crave your indulgence at this mail coming from somebody you have not known before. I decided to do this after praying over the situation. Please consider my condition, and not the fact that you have not known me before.I need not dwell on how I came by your contact information because there are many such possibilities these days.I am Mrs. Roseline Powell,a citizen of Gogaburn, Edinburgh,Scotland . I am the wife and widow to Late Mr. Julius Powell a former Scotish ambassador and diplomat to the United Nations.He died in 2005.I have recently been diagnosed of Cancer of the Pelvic and my doctor said," no hope of survival".I am writing from my laptop on my sick bed in St.mary's hospital,Wembeldon South, London.

My husband left in a charity foundation account ,the sum of (£21.5Million) with the Royal Bank Of Scotland.And my husband is the only child of his deceased parents. I need a reliable person urgently to co-operate with.Because of my deteroriating health condition and my husband' death, I am looking for a credible person to whom I will pass the right of next of kin as I and my husband have no child or children to pass over the right of next of kin. This person will apply to the bank and request for the transfer of the fund to his or her bank account for charity purposes only. This is on the condition that you will take 35% of the fund for yourself,5% will be used to settle expenses incured.While you will use the remaining 60% for the less privilege people in the society.This is in fulfillment of the last request of my husband: That a substantial part of the fund be used to carter for the less privilege and ,also to donate for the relief of Tsunami victims.If this condition is acceptable to you, you should contact me immediately. Dr Mathew Orleans, my doctor says no hope of survival...please before i become incapacitated,reply urgently for me to give you a text of application which you will fill and send to the Royal Bank Of Scotland.Beloved, please you may use my alternative mail ID to reply, thus: roselynpowell_81z@yahoo.com
Yours sincerely,Mrs.Roseline Powell.
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