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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "stay blessed" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• This email message is a "dying widow" scam.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • rebeccasfunds1@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Lady Rebecca Thatcher." <rebeccasfunds@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 06:48:28 +0200
Subject: WARM REGARDS.


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From: Lady Rebecca Thatcher.
No:36 Old Shrewberry Street,
London England.

Beloved,i am Lady Rebecca Thatcher, suffering from cancerous ailment.I used
to be married to Sir Jeremy Thatcher an Englishman who is dead and resting
peacefully. My husband was into private practice all his life before he
passed.When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of Twenty
MillionPounds (20,000,000.00 Million Great Britain Pounds Sterling),which
werederived from his vast estates and investment in capital market with
hisbank here in UK.Presently, this money is still with the Bank. Recently,my
Doctor told methat I have limited days to live due to the cancerous problems
I am s uffering from.

Though what bothers me most is the stroke that I have in addition to
thecancer.With this hard reality that has befallen me, I have decided to
donate this funds to you and want you to use this gift which comes from
mylate husbands hard work to fund the upkeep of widows,
widowers,orphans,destitute,the down-trodden, physically challenged
children,barren-women and persons who prove to be genuinely
handicappedfinancially.I took this decisionbecause I do not have any child
that will inherit this money.My happinessis that I lived a life worthy of
emulation.

Please assure me that you will act just as I have stated herein.

Hope to hear from you soon.

You can contact me through my personal email address
at:rebeccasfunds1@hotmail.com

Stay Blessed as you carry out this humanitarian task.


Sincerely yours


Lady Rebecca Thatcher.




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