419 scam: "Mrs.Elizabeth Joel Waworundeng,"<mrs.elizabeth_joelwaworundeng@yahoo.co.uk> Your immediate assistance is needed.

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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:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "hundred thousand u.s 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)
- "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
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.
- barr.nelsonwilliams@yahoo.co.uk (Yahoo, United Kingdom; can be used from anywhere worldwide)
- our family lawyer on his e-mail address : barr.nelsonwilliams@yahoo.co.uk for more information. thanking you for your kind hart in (Yahoo; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs.Elizabeth Joel Waworundeng," (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrs.elizabethjoelwaworundeng@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 17:54:09 +0100
Subject: Your immediate assistance is needed.

Dear Friend,

Greetings in the name of the almighty God, I like to introduce my self to you first, I am Mrs.Elizabeth Joel Waworundeng, a widow and wife of late Mr.Joel Waworundeng from Indonesia and the owner of a Real Estate company here in London I am 52 years today a Citizen of Australia, joined my lovely husband to Africa for his awarded contract in Real Estate management and agricultural engineering work, before my husband met his sudden dead. I am now suffering from longtime Cancer of the breast, and from all indication my conditions is really deteriorating and it is quit obvious that I wont live more than Seven (7) months according to my doctor report.

This is because the Cancer illness has gotten to a very bad stages and I don’t know what to do with It, and my late husband hard earned acquired money and properties since my late husband left me with NO child before his dead. And based on that reason I am looking for a reliable and honest person to will this amount only to invest into the work of God almighty at least to a place of worship to glorify almighty God for what he has done in my life so-far.

I wait for your very urgent reply in the name of almighty God so that I can investigate and introduce you to our family lawyer and to the bank where the money USD35.500 000.00 (Thirty Five Million Five Hundred Thousand U.S Dollars only) is deposited as my late husband business Partner in order for the bank to have the amount transfer to your bank account for the work of almighty God. Or you can contact our family lawyer by name Barr.Nelson Williams, who have the whole fund documents and will details of this fund.

So can you be of assistance as a Partner? I will give you details when you reply.you can also contact our family Lawyer on his E-mail address : barr.nelsonwilliams@yahoo.co.uk for more information.

Thanking you for your kind hart in this my sympathetic situation.

Regards and be bless.
Mrs. Mrs.Elizabeth Joel Waworundeng,
E-MAIL:mrs.elizabethjoelwaworundeng@yahoo.co.uk

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