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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 pounds" (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)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: Doris Parker <dogged@iol.cz>
Reply-To: dpker200@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:40:35 GMT
Subject: USE IT FOR THE LESS PRIVILEDGE




Dear Beloved in Christ=2C

I am Madam Doris Parker=2Csuffering from cancerous ailment=2EI was marri=
ed to
Engineer Parker=2Cmy husband worked with Chevron/Texaco in the United
Kingdom for twenty years before he died in the year 2003=2E My late husb=
and
deposited the sum of =A3 7=2E Million (Seven Million Pounds) with a Bank=
in
United Kingdom=2E

My Doctor told me that I have limited days to live due to the stroke and=

cancerous problems I am suffering from=2EI have decidedto donate this fu=
nd
to you and want you to use this husbands effort to fund the
upkeep of widows and charities worldwide=2EI 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=2E
NOTE=3APlease do not click reply to reply me=2Cplease contact me with my=

private=2Eaddress=3Adpker2000=40yahoo=2Ecom=2Ehk

Your Sister in Christ=2C
Madam Doris Parker

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