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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "hundred thousand us dollars" (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 "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.
  • mrssaleh_galal@o2.pl (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?utf-8?q?Mrs=20Saleh=20Galal?= <mrssaleh_galal01@yahoo.com.co>
Reply-To: mrssaleh_galal@o2.pl
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 04:22:39 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Dear Sir/Madam, HAPPY NEW YEAR - Waiting for your Response.


¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!Ahora puedes escribirme a:mrssaleh_galal01@yahoo.com.co



- Dear Sir/Madam, HAPPY NEW YEAR - Waiting for your Response. I greet you in the name of God Almighty. I am Mrs. Mary Saleh Galal a widow to Late Dr. Mohamed Galal a businessman from Egypt. I am presently residing in London, the United Kingdom. I am an old woman of 63 years suffering from cancer. From all indications, my condition is really deteriorating and it is quite obvious that I may not live long, because the cancer stage has gotten to a very severe stage as confirm by medical experts. I lost my husband and my two beautiful kids on Sunday the 14th day of August, 2005 through a Greek aircraft crash in which all the 121 people on board a Cypriot airliner died after it plunged into a hill near Athens after an apparent drop in cabin pressure. Please visit the website below for your verification = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4150312.stm. My late husband was very wealthy and after his death, I inherited all his business and wealth. My personal physician told me that I may not live for so long and I am so scared about this. So, I now decided to donate part of this wealth through you to the less privileged people and handicapped ones in the society anywhere in the world you may live. I selected you for this Purpose and prayed over it, I am willing to donate the sum of $7,300,000.00 (Seven Million, Three Hundred Thousand US Dollars to you for the development of the well being of handicapped people in the society and also as an aid for the less privileged around your country, and I have maped out $1,700,000.00 for your own personal use as the executor of this great project. Please note that, this fund is deposited in my Domiciliary Account with a Bank. Therefore, I will forward to you immediately an application for the transfer of the money in your name or company name as the owner and beneficiary of the fund which you will complete and send to the Bank. Please, do not reply me if you have the intention of using this whole fund for personal use other than as I have specified above. I want any Organization, or an individual, that will use this gift which comes from my sweat to fund the upkeep of widows, widowers, orphans, destitute, the down-trodden and physically challenged children. Lastly, I want you/your home to be praying for me regarding my health because I have come to find out since my spiritual birth lately that wealth acquisition without God, one's life is vanity upon vanity. Please you can reach me through my alternative email ID: mrssaleh_galal@o2.pl. I await your reply. Mrs. Mary Saleh Galal

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