419 scam: "From Mrs. Rose White" <rosewhiterose72@yahoo.com> From Mrs. Rose White

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "million 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)
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.
- mrs.rosewhite97@yahoo.com (Yahoo; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "From Mrs. Rose White" <rosewhiterose72@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mrs.rosewhite97@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 08:29:02 +0300 (EEST)
Subject: From Mrs. Rose White

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>From Mrs. Rose White

I am Mrs. Rose White from Netherlands,I am 68 years old, i am suffering
from a long time cancer of the breast, from all indication my conditions
is really deteriorating and it is quite obvious that i can't work or do
any stressful thing, according to my doctors they have advised me that i
may not live for the next two months,this is because the cancer stage has
gotten to a very bad stage. I was brought up from a motherless babies home
was married to my late husband for twenty years without a child,

My Husband (Roberto Patrick) died in a fatal motor accident Before his
death we were true Christians.Since his death I decided not to re-marry,I
sold all my inherited belongings and deposited all the sum of $5.6 million
dollars with a Security Company.

Presently, this money is still with them and the management just wrote me
as the true owner to come forward to receive the money for keeping it so
long with attract a demurage fees as the security fees paid by me has
expired or rather issue a letter of authorization to somebody to receive
it on my behalf since I can not come over because of my illness or they
get it confisticated.

So instead of getting it confiscated i rather have someone whom i can
trust to recieve the funds and utilise it according to my wishes.All i
need from you is a confidential assurance that the funds when recieved by
you will be used for the said purpose, Nowadays there are so much scams
going on in the internet and it is diffcult to trust but i dont know why
the Holy spirit still approved me to email you about this out of few email
addresses i have from the internet, yours was the only one that my mind
convienced me to contact..Please reply to my
email:mrs.rosewhite97@yahoo.com

Waiting for your reply.
Yours in Christ,
Mrs. Rose White
EMAIL:mrs.rosewhite97@yahoo.com

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