419 scam: Mrs Barbara Briggs <mrs.barbaram@gmail.com> From Mrs Barbara Briggs.

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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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: Mrs Barbara Briggs <mrs.barbaram@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrsbarbara10@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 13:39:55 +0000
Subject: From Mrs Barbara Briggs.

Dear in Christ,

I am contacting you to let you know my desire to establish a charity foundation
in your country with this sum $2.500.000 (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand
Dollars) which I inherited from my late husband (Engineer.Mr.Desmond Briggs )

It is my desire to see that this money is invested to any business/ organization
of your choice in your country and distributed each year among the charity
organizations, motherless baby’s home, mosques, churches, Schools, supporting
destitute aged men and women or whatever you may have in mind that will be to
the benefit of the less fortunate.

I took this decision because I am presently hospitalized here where I am
undergoing treatment for my up coming breast cancer surgery operation and
alternative treatment for my cardiovascular disease (stroke).

As you may wish to know there are no risks involved in this whole transaction, I
therefore look forward to your early reply so that I will give you all the
relevant information that will authoress the release and transfer of the money
to you as my duly assigned representative.

Thanking you in advance for your consideration,

Mrs.Barbara Briggs.

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