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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:

• This email message is a "dying widow" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <jaunthersherry23@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:39:03 +0000
Subject: hello




Beloved Friend,
I am Mrs. Sherry Buoy Jaunther from Holland. I am married to Dr.Harry Jaunther a Kenyan who worked with a construction company in Asia for twenty Years before he died in the tsunami disasters, we were married but without Any children and presently I am 70 Years old. When my late husband was Alive he deposited the sum of $9.5M. (Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand U.S.Dollars)with a Security Company. Am presently in a hospital where I have been undergoing treatment Cancer of the lungs, I want you to use 90% of this money to fund churches, orphanages and widows around the world but in my name Mrs.Sherry Jaunther. As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the details and the information of the Security Co.,God Bless You!Mother Sherry Buoy

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