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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:
  • "huge amount of money" (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)
  • "transfer into your account" (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)
  • "urgent assistance" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a "dying widow" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Morgan Racheal" <rmorgan02@mailbox.hu>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 09:12:13 +0100
Subject: From:Mrs Rachael M.K.Barker


From:Mrs Rachael M.K.Barker
12,St.John Street, Sao Tome
SAO TOME ISLAND,SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN.
PRIVATE EMAIL:rmorgan03@live.com <EMAIL%3Armorgan03@live.com>,
rmorgan02@live.com


Dear Partner,


Do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your personal
ethics. I sincerely ask for forgiveness for i know this may seem like a
complete intrusion to your privacy but right about now this is my option of
communication.

This note might seem strange or probably untrue considering the amount
of junk mails we receive daily, but i believe this is still the most
genuine way of contacting a true character.

I will introduce myself as Mrs. Rachael Morgan.Kazeem Barker. I am
married to Dr. Kazeem Barker who was formerly an assistant to the
secretary general of Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries "OPEC". He has worked with this organization for nine years
before he died in the year 2003, as a result of one of our son's brutal
murder in Saudi Arabia by unknown gun men.

He died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days. Since
his death I decided never to re-marry or get a child outside my matrimonial
home which my culture is against.

However, the most painful and annoying part of it is that my husband's
relatives has been on my neck. They said I was behind my husband death
which is never true. They sent me packing and threw me out of my
matrimonial home which I have suffered for with my late husband for so many
years. I have nowhere to go to, so I decided to go back to my
motherland to stay with my family in SAO TOME ISLAND via offshore Africa in
South Atlantic Ocean to get myself organized and carter for my children.

Before my husband died, he made me to understand that he deposited the
sum of $52 million (Fifty Two Million U.S. Dollars) when he was still the
secretary of OPEC with a finance house in oversea. We have interest in
Stocks,Tourism,Hotels,Agriculture etc.Please, I hereby request for your
urgent assistance to help my family in investing the money as a partnership
investment with your company or any investment that both of us will benefit
from it.

Presently, this money is still under the safe keeping of the finance house
in oversea. I don't want my husband's relatives to know about this
development.

Please tell me in confidence, can you handle it? Can you invest this
huge amount of money successfully on behalf of my family? Please advise
most urgently.

In a short time, I will arrange a meeting with you and my eldest son
who will accompany you to the finance house office where the investment fund
is deposited by his late father for easy claim and quick transfer.

My Eldest son will be assisting me to facilitate this transaction and
both of you will make arrangements to have this funds claimed and transfer
into your account.

I will issue you a letter of authority that will empower you as the
original-beneficiary of this fund with other related documents. Also, I will
forward to you my personal information for recognition and trust before you
proceed contact with the Finance house.


Upon your acceptance of this offer,we shall discuss about your share in

this transaction.


You are to contact me via this private email addresses only for
security reasons: rmorgan03@live.com,rmorgan02@live.com


Yours in Sincerely,
Mrs. Rachael M. K.Barker.

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