419 scam: "Nadia Ibrahim"<nadiaibrahim@yahoo.com> Urgent Trust To Success

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "huge sum of money" (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)
This email message is a "dying widow" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Nadia Ibrahim" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <nadiaibrahim1956@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 23:05:55 -0000
Subject: Urgent Trust To Success

Good Day,

Sorry to take a little of your time. My name is Nadia Ibrahim aged 57yrs, suffering from long cancer of the lung. I am a widow to Late Iskandar Ibrahim who was killed during U.S. raid against Terrorism in Afghanistan. Until his death, my late husband was into oil and gas business that fetched him huge sum of money which I inherited as his next of kin.
During the period of our marriage, we couldn't produce any child but by the special grace of God we adopted a little girl by name Aisah Ibrahim.

I decided to contact you through this medium because I was told by my personal doctor that my cancer stage has deteriorated so much that I many not live up to two more months from now and considering the faith of this little girl we adopted, I decided to will my inherited money to you so that you can take care of her.
My late husband before his death, deposited a total amount of $10.5M with a Financial Firm in Malaysia where we lived for years before relocated to this country Afghanistan that claimed the life of the most loving husband and father on this whole earth (My Husband). I want to introduce you as the new beneficiary of this fund to the Financial Firm in Malaysia if only you will promise me that you shall take care of my little Aisah as your own biological daughter and invest part of my fund into charity.

Please, you are entitled to 30% of this fund for your efforts while you invest the balance of 70% into charity and taking care of little Aisah.

Respond urgently to this message if you are interested.

Regards,
Mrs. Nadia Ibrahim

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