419 scam: Lina Coleman <colemanlina@yahoo.fr> Donation From Madam.Lina Coleman

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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:
- ",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)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: Lina Coleman <colemanlina@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: <linaacoleman@outlook.fr>
Date: Tue, 05 May 2015 00:41:42 +0900
Subject: Donation From Madam.Lina Coleman

Donation From Madam.Lina Coleman
Greetings to you Dear,

Please forgive my intrusion into your privacy, my name is Madam. Lina Coleman, I am married to late Mr. Robert Guei Coleman who is a France Citizen while i am a Congolese Citizen but we lives in Ivory Coast where my late husband was a Cocoa merchant who export Cocoa from Ivory Coast to all the European nations before his death in the year of 2011.

Presently I am a sick widow diagnosed with cancer of lungs including fibroid and tumor which denied me of having children with my husband before his death, I inherited the sum of $5,500,000 dollars by my late husband which i have decided to donate to a reliable individual that will use this money to help the orphans and less privileged in the society for the sake of humanity since I don't have any child to inherit the fund when am no more alive,

My relatives and friends have plundered so much of my wealth since my illness and i cannot live with the agony of entrusting this huge responsibility to any of them anymore.

You will take 30% of this fund for your effort and share the rest of 70% to orphans, less privileged and the widows, if you are willing to accept my offer and use this fund exactly as i have stated. Kindly reply me with your datas let me know you more before i will instruct the bank to transfer the money to you.

My regards and god bless you for your concern
Madam Lina Coleman

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