419 scam: Moira Lloyd <litrm2@att.net> I decided.

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

Fraud email example:

From: Moira Lloyd <litrm2@att.net>
Reply-To: moira_lloyd@yahoo.cn
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 16:07:36 -0800 (PST)
Subject: I decided.

Remain Bless in the name of the Lord.
I am Mrs.Moira Lloyd from latvia. I am married to Deacon JAMES.M.Lloyd who served as an Archdeacon in the paroisse saint sebastien Church.here in ivory coast for twelve years before he died in 2004.We adopted a child who is just about nine years now,we have been doing our best to promote charity work anywhere the Lord laid us to.Since His death in 2004 I have been having Lung Cancer and now my doctor has confirm to me that i would not last for the next 16 Weeks due to the cancer illness.

I have been distributing all i have since the Doctor gave me the notification,so I am contacting you because I need a trustworthy someone whom I will give my life time savings to help me establish a charity program,and to hlep me take care of the boy I got your contact and prayed over it and I decided to trust you and contact you for this hlep and donation. I what you to help me to use this money,thats the sum of 4.5Million U.S. Dollars which my late husband deposited here in one of the bank for chirty work,as soon on as I receive your reply I will give you the documents and the contact bank here,Your loving sister in Christ,
FORM Mrs.Moira Lloyd

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