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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million united states 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)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "god fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • franca_whisky@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mrsfrancawhisky <mrsfrancawhisky@orange.nl>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 15:29:08 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Personal letter


(FRIEND IN THE LORD)
USE THIS MONEY FOR THE CHURCHES & THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN THE WORLD.


Dear Friend,

Greetings to you and your family in the name of God,in my search for a reliable and God fearing person and having gotten your contact through prayers and pains taking efforts via searching i made on the internet on my bed side.
Presently, I'm in a hospital where I have been undergoing treatment for Oesophagi Cancer at International Memorial Hospital Cotonou Benin Republic. I have decided to seek your help in carrying out my last wishes. My name is Mrs. Franca Julian Whisky, I'm a 51 years old woman and my Country is Sierra- Leone,i was a merchant and owned two businesses in Dubai,i was also married with two children.
But my husband and two children where involved in a plane crash in the Dec,25th 2003

website.http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html
Before this happened,my business and concern for making money was all I care for,i never really cared about other values in life.
But since after the loss of my family as a great shocked to me, I have found a new desire to assist helpless families as a way to worship God and sort his face for mercy,Therefore i have decided to donate money for the Churches /orphanage and Less Privileged in the world.

my husband kept ( $32.000,000 Million) Thirty two Million United States Dollars, it was deposited in a Finance company in Cotonou Benin Republic West Africa. I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have only few weeks to live,It is my last wish to see this money distributed to Churches /orphanage and Less Privileged in the world , I have enclosed for you the Current Photogragh I took below.
Please, I beg you in the name of God to help me collect the deposit with the help of my charity Lawyer and distributes it accordingly, Use your judgment to distribute the money to orphans in orphanage/motherless /churches and keep 20% of it to yourself and 20% to the charity lawyer who is going to help to make sure the money is transfer to you your country.
Feel free to re-imburse yourself and also the lawyer when you have the money in your country for any expences you made during the process of collecting/claiming the Funds on my behalf, since i can't help in anyway financailly due to my condition.

Please If you are willing to asisit, reply as soon as possible Email franca_whisky@yahoo.fr, again I will allow you to communicate with the financial company directly upon the receipt of your reply because I want this project to be completed before is too late according to the Doctor.


Thanks and remine bless,
Mrs Franca Julian Whisky.

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