419 scam: Katherine Travers <officelink205@yahoo.pt> From Mrs.Katherine Travers

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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:
- ",500,000" (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)
- "00,000.00" (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 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.
- katherine09travers@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Katherine Travers <officelink205@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: Katherine Travers <katherine09travers@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 17:32:22 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: From Mrs.Katherine Travers

Â Hello Dear,

Good Day and how are you? My name is Mrs Katherine Travers ; I am contacting you because I want to donate the sum of $6,500,000 to you. I am seeking for a trustworthy individual or organization that I will donate this money to, to help run a Charity Program and if possible establish an Orphanage Home with the money as I will depart this wicked world soon due to esophageal cancer. I want to help poor kids and less privileged ones as much as I can especially the motherless. I am a widow and have no child, my husband and our three children died in an accident, I have no one around me to trust as they all want to loot my assets and never care about my interest. Presently I am at the hospital receiving treatment.

Please if you can be trusted and sincere to take up this project then I will gladly order transfer of the fund ($6,500,000.00) Six Million Five Hundred Thousand American dollrs to you and 20% of the money will be your gratification as a token of gratitude for assisting while you will use the remaining 80% for the project. I admit that we do not know each other and as a matter of fact stranger to each other, but before I started searching for someone online I prayed over it for 4 days for God to direct me to an honest person, so immediately I saw your contact I developed confidence and decided to approach and trust you for this donation. I wish you are that honestand hardworking type that I am looking for. Please reply me as quickly as you can for further details on how this amount would be transferred to your Country before I depart to the bosom of God my creator, because my health has deteriorated so badly that I can die at any time according to doctors. Contact me back trough my private email: ( katherine09travers@gmail.com )if you are interested and willing to handle the fund and proposed project.

God be with you.
Sincerely Yours
Mrs.Katherine Travers
Email me at:( katherine09travers@gmail.com )

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