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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:
  • "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)
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "urgent08@terra.es" <urgent08@terra.es>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 23:49:00 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Attn:Beloved In The Lord,


Attn:Beloved In The Lord,

I am writing you this mail on my sick bed and with pains in my heart. I am Mrs.Diana Ramirez; my husband was the former

Divisional Assistant Manager to the WORLD BANK. He died on a business trip on the 22ND of July 2007. Three months after his

death, I went for a check-up, my late husband's doctor told me that my lungs have been infected with a problem due to the shock

of the sudden news of my husbands death. I decided to go for a surgery immediately so that my lungs will not be affected badly.

Two months after the surgery, the same problem continues, and then I have to be transferred to another hospital for thorough

treatment. But when I got to the new hospital, the doctors there confirmed that I am suffering from the cancer of the lungs, and

have been infected badly, and the worst of all is that they is no other remedy for it and that I have
only three months to live. Unfortunately, I and my late husband had no issue (child) before his death. That is the reason why I seek

for your assistance.

I and my late husband had the sum of twelve million United States dollars (USD $12,000,000) on our joint account, and as this

problem has risen up, I have no other person or child to inherit this money when I die.

Therefore the only role that I want you to play is to help me in finding a GOD fearing person or a someone that can be trusted that

will help me to invest this money wisely. My intentions are for the money to be used in building orphanage homes, support the

poor and the needy and help in building churches.

Am appealing to Individuals, Co-operate bodies, Churches and Non Governmental Organization(NGO) that can help me in

investing this money wisely or if you know fully well that you are a trust worthy person, please reply this mail stating that you will

help.
I will like to use this medium to inform you too to help me in prayers and to ask GOD to accept my soul in heaven when I die.

Thanks and God bless as you come to my aide.
Yours Sincerely,

Mrs.Diana Ramirez





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