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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:
  • ",500,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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 next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Andrew Arden" <andrewarden1@hosanna.net>
Reply-To: andrewcahmbers@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:36:28 +0100
Subject: Notification of Bequest


Notification of Bequest
On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the
Estatea of late Luciano Pavarotti,I hereby attempt to
reach you again .I wish to notify you that late Luciano
Pavoratti made you a beneficiary to his will.He
left the sum of thirty one Million five Hundred Thousand
Dollars.($31,500,000.00 )to you in the codicil
and last testament to his will. This may sound
strange and unbelievable to you, but it is real and
true.
Luciano Pavarotti was known for his humanitarian
work. He was the founder and the host of the
'Pavarotti & Friends' annual charity concerts and
related activities in Modena, Italy.. There he sang
with international stars of all styles to raise
funds for several worthy UN causes and charity
homes. Pavarotti sang with Bono and U2 in the 1995
song Miss Sarajevo and raised $50,500,000 in his
charity project 'Concert for Bosnia'. He also
established and financed the Pavarotti Music Center
in Bosnia, and raised funds in charity concerts for
refugees from Afghanistan and for refugees from
Kosovo. Pavarotti made two Guinness World Records
one was for receiving the most curtain calls at

and the other was for the best selling classical
album of 'The Three Tenors in Concert' with Pl?cido
Domingo and Josep Carreras.
Late Luciano Pavarotti until his death was a very
dedicated Christian who loved to give out. His
great philanthropy earned him numerous awards during his
life time, late Luciano Pavarotti died at the age of
71 years.According to him this money is to support
your activities and to help the poor and the needy.
Read more about him on this web(http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0667556/bio)
Please You should fill the information below for
more clarities and identification of your
informations we have here
1.Full Name
2.Mobile Telephone number,
3.Age
4.contact address/Country
5.occupation
Yours In Service,
Attorney Andrew Arden(Esq)

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