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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear beloved," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: abju_47@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:38:01 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Dear Beloved


¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!Ahora puedes escribirme a:lindarhodes01@yahoo.com.co



- Dear Beloved,Is an art of God to come across you on the internet and praying that as God has directed me to you ,his power will take charge of every assignment i am giving to you beloved.I have the intention of helping the poor children out there because i feel for them when i see them on television crying for help.Is really unfortunate that I indulged myself into a deadly habit that has destroyed me. I smoked for years out of fun unknown to me that is a deadly habit. Now i got cancer of the lungs that has destroyed my lungs, my lungs are now destroyed and will die at anytime from now as my doctor confirmed.The worst part of it all is that i don't have a child of my own to continue from where i stopped in life due to the reckless life i lived. I have no option than to give out my wealth US$2.2M acquired from my hard toiling to the poor children. Kindly hurry up to my aid to set the dying children free from untimely death with my wealth because if i die now and the funds is not transferred to your able and sincere possession, automatically the institution where the funds is will claim it for there own use and my toiling on earth will be in vaiin.Linda from Canada.

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