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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 beloved," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • silva_robert004@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "LADY SILVA ROBERT" <silva_robert004@HOTMAIL.COM>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:37:58 -0400
Subject: HELP FOR THE NEEDING,



Dear Beloved,

I am Lady Silva Robert, married to Sir Desmond Roberts an
Englishman who is
dead; he died in a train bomb blast in Spain when he was going for
his medical
check up in 2004.Please copy and paste this Internet link for more
information
on the ncidenthttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/
4340881.stm ,
Our life together as man and wife lasted for three decades
without child.My
husband and I made a vow to uplift the down-trodden and the less-
privileged.

I can adduce this to the fact that he needed a Child from this
relationship,
which never came.When my late husband was alive, he made a
safe deposit of 3
Million Great British Pounds which were derived from his vast
estates and
investment in capital market with bank here in Europe.

Recently, my Doctor told me that I have limited days to live due to
the
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,widowers, orphans, destitute, and persons
who prove to be
genuinely handicapped financially.Being aware of the bourgeois
religion of my
relatives and the misused of his previous investment and ventures.

I have decided to put smile on the face of the less
privileged.Reach me with my
private email: silva_robert004@hotmail.com.

Sincerely Yours,
Lady Silva Robert

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