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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:
  • "search for a reliable person" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a "dying widow" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Elizabeth Justin" <elijustin@beehive.org>
Reply-To: mrselijustin@live.com
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:58:50 +0100
Subject:


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Good Day,

Greetings to you in the name of our Lord.

Please use this money for the poor people, churches and less privileged
people .

In my search for a reliable person and all so a Good person and having
gotten your contact through prayers and painstaking efforts I have decided
to seek your help in carrying out my last wishes.

I am Mrs. Elizabeth Justin,suffering from cancerous ailment.I am married to
Mr.Robert Justin, my husband worked with the Northern Ireland Channel
Islands, England in the United Kingdom for twenty years before he died in
the year 2003.

My late husband deposited the sum of £17.5 Million (Seventeen Million Five
Hundred Thousand Pounds) with a Bank in United Kingdom. Recently, my Doctor
told me that I have limited days to live due to the stroke and cancerous
problems I am suffering from. Baes on this 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 and charities worldwide.

I took this decision because I do not have any child that will inherit this
money and my husband relatives are bourgeois and very wealthy persons and I
do not want my husband hard earned money to be misused. contact me for more
information Email: mrselijustin@live.com

Please, I beg you to help me to collect this deposit and distributes it
accordingly. Use your judgment to distribute the money and keep 10% of it to
yourself. Feel free to reimburse yourself when you have the money for any
cost you incur during the process of collecting and distributing the money.

Finally, if you are willing to help, please reply as soon as possible.

May the good lord bless you .

Your Sister in Christ,

Mrs. Elizabeth Justin .
Good Day .
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