419 scam: "Mrs.Pamela"<mmhepburn@btconnect.com> Hello Dear

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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:
- "a security company " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
- "trunk box" (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)
- "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
This email message is a next of kin 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_pamela009@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs.Pamela" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrs_pamela009@e-mail.ua>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 04:59:59 -0800
Subject: Hello Dear

Hello Dear

Please i want to confide in you though i do not know you and i have not met you before but i just want to have faith in you believing that you could be the right person i can talk to at this point in time;

My health is in a critical state because of blood cancer and my last medical report confirmed that i have a very short time to live so because of this reason i am contacting you to help me take care of my daughter and also help invest and manage her inheritance.

Please i do not want her to suffer after i am dead and gone but i want her to have a better future in your country under your care.

I was a mistress to Mr.Clement Jama who is from Liberia. He was a Gold Dust Merchant in Ghana, He was poisoned to death by his business partner in one of their business outing out of jealous and wickedness. After the funeral of Late Mr.Clement, his family member threw me and my years 9years old daughter out of the family residence claiming that their late brother has a legal wedded indigenous wife with 2 kids, i pleaded with them to allow my daughter to stay but they refused standing on their point that my daughter is an illegitimate child so she has no place in their family because of their greed. All this thing happen because am not an African and also not from Liberia. Am from Los Angeles,California USA and i came down to Ghana with Mr.Clement to help him with his business and now he is dead all this begin to happen to me and my daughter.

But before the death of Mr.Clement Jama, he has given me secretly a certificate of deposit for a security company where he has deposited One Metallic Trunk Box containing my daughter's inheritance, the sum of $4,750,000USD and some gold dust, He said he kept this metallic trunk box under the custody of the security company for safe keeping with the name of my daughter as the next of kin but none of his family member is aware of it.

Please i want you to help us transfer my daughter's inheritance to your country and invest the money into a good business which you will manage for my daughter while she grows up in your country under your care.

You can help kindly let me know so that i can give you all the details.

Reply With This email (mrs_pamela009@hotmail.com)

God bless you;

Mrs.Pamela

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