419 scam: "Mrs. Nancy Nenad" <mrsnancy09@mail.mn> I will be happy to hear from you.

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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!

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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)
- "calvary greetings" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
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.nancytnenad@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Nancy Nenad" <mrsnancy09@mail.mn>
Reply-To: "MMrs. Nancy Nenad" <mrs.nancytnenad@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 11:51:30 +0900 (JST)
Subject: I will be happy to hear from you.

I will be happy to hear from you.

Calvary greetings in the name of our Almighty God, I am a widow to Late (Nenad
Tomov) we are from Switzerland live in London, United Kingdom, we own Treasure Art Incorporated and Treasure Crude Oil Marketers. I am 69 years old, I am now a new Christian convert, suffering from long time cancer of the breast.

>From all indications, my condition is serious, according to my doctor it is quite obvious that I may not survive the sickness.

My late husband and my only son died in the crash of Swissair Flight 111 on the 7th, of September 1998. I have been living alone since then. Almighty God is my comforter. My late husband was very wealthy we have a lot of propertiesincluding Shares and houses.

After the death of my husband, I made up my mind to do the work of God as a missionary I called our lawyer and I instructed him to sell all my husband properties and shares to enable me raise some money to continue my mission,the lawyer sold the Shares and some of the properties and I was able to raise the sum of (6.2MILLION DOLLARS) The fund is currently deposited in a FINANCE COMPANY in London Now that my sickness has gone to this stage, I am scared and I want the fund to be used for the work of God all over the world and be distributed to charity organizations.

View the link below for details about the death.

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/index.html

I have prayed and I told God to direct me to an honest PERSON who will receive this fund and utilize it for things that will glorify the name of God and also help the motherless babies and widows, this money will be released to Christians or a muslims provided you can make use of it. After my prayers, I now searched your email address in the internet on the directives of the almighty God.

If you are interested in using this fund for the work of God, please send to me your full names, address, telephone number and age to enable me give it to the FINANCE COMPANY for immediate arrangement on how the funds of $6,200,000 will be transfered to you in your country.

NOTE:that nothing of any nature will divert your interest from what and how the fund should be used and the almighty God will reward you for adding joy to the lives of the less privilege in the society today and more to glorify the name of God in his holy house.

My dear, I assure you that as you indicate your interest by adding joy to the lives of orphanages then I promise you that the Lord almighty will surely rain his blessings upon you & your family.

You will reach me directly on this email: mrs.nancytnenad@gmail.com
thanks and God be with you as I await your response.
Most sincerely,

Mrs.Nancy T Nenad

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