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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:
  • "hundred thousand 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)
  • "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a "dying widow" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Darma Guriton" <darmaguriton5@livedoor.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 23:55:21 +0200
Subject: Waiting urgently to receive your response.


Dear Good Friend,

I contact you after my praying and fasting to sow this seed of faith in your
care, l know too well that we did not know each other before but please
consider this proposal on its content . I need not dwell on how I came by
your contact information because there are many such possibilities these
days.

I will like to introduce myself as Mrs. Guriton Darma a widow to Late
Dr.Argo Darma, I have been recently been daigonosed of Cancer. I am writing
from my sick bed. There is this fund US$4.5 Milliom (Four Million Five
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) cash my late husband deposited with
a bank. With my health condition and I have no child, I am looking for a
credible person to whom I will pass the right of next of kin. This person
will apply to the bank and request for the transfer of this fund to a
foreign account.

This is on the condition that you will take 10% of the fund for yourself,
incliuding all the expences you made during the cause of transfering the
money to any account that you will be proving to the bank, While you will
use the remaining ballance for the less previlege people in the society.
This is in fullfillment of the last request of my husband, That a
substantial part of the fund be used to carter for the less previleged.

If this condition is acceptable to you, You should contact me immediately
with your Complete contact informations so that I will put you in contact
with the bank directly for the transfer of the money to any account that you
will provide to them, I can't predict what will be my fate by the time you
will recieve the fund, But you should please ensure that the fund is used as
l have described above.

Waiting urgently to receive your response.
Yours Sincerely.
Mrs. Guriton Darma

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