419 scam: PASTOR MIKE <pastormike0096@att.net> GOD'S WORK I NEED YOUR HELP AM SICK

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
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)
- ",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)
- "lome togo" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
This email message is a "dying merchant" 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.
- pastormike13@sify.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: PASTOR MIKE <pastormike0096@att.net>
Reply-To: pastormike13@sify.com
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 10:48:41 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: GOD'S WORK I NEED YOUR HELP AM SICK

FROM:PASTOR MIKE
5 Le vas Street.
Lome Togo.

Hello Dearest in christ ,
How are you today? hope you are fine.
Please permit me to introduce myself, I am pastor mike
As you read this, I don't want you to feel sorry for
me,

because, I believe everyone will die someday.
I was a Crude Oil merchant in TOGO,i have been
diagnosed with Esophageal spinal cord after the motor
accident I hard A year and six months
now. It has defiled all forms of medical treatment no
improvements

I stay one place in the Hospital without walking, this
mail was
written by one of the nurses who is in the
hospital here
and hard promised to keep this secret.
I await for death any time from now may be in the next
few

months,according to medical experts. I have not
particularly
lived my life so well, as I never really cared for
anyone(not
even myself)but my business. Though I am very rich, I
was never

generous, I was always hostile to people and only
focused on my
business as that was the only thing I cared for. But
now I regret
all this as I now know that there is more to life than
just
wanting to have or make all the money in the world. I
believe
when God gives me a second chance to come to this
world I would

live my life a different way from how I have lived it.
Now that
God has called me, I have willed and given most of
my property
and assets to my immediate and extended family members
as well as

a few close friends. I want God to be merciful to me
and accept my
soul so, I have decided to give alms to charity
organizations, as
I want this to be one of the last good deeds I do on
earth. So
far, I have distributed
money to some charity organizations in Austra,
cameroun,liberia,Algeria and Malaysia. Now that my
health has
deteriorated so badly, I cannot do this myself
anymore. I once
asked members of my family to close one of my accounts
and
distribute the money which I have there to charity
organization
in Bulgaria and Pakistan, they refused and kept the
money to

themselves. Hence, I do not trust them anymore, as
they seem not
to be contended with what I have left for them.
The last of my money which no one knows of is the
cash
deposit of five million dollars $5,000,000,00 that
I have with
a finance/Security Company . I will want you to
help me

collect this deposit and dispatched it to charity or
ganizations.
I have set aside 10% for you and for your time. If you
feel up to
it and you are honest, please contact me asap.and I

shall proceed
on the documents concerned you will receive this money
within 3-4
working days from now.
Please

get back to me through this email
address; pastormike13@sify.com

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