419 scam: "Mrs.Isabella Caromel"<mmkgfs@qq.com> Private Message To You

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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:
- "might come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "remain blessed" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
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.
- mrs.isabellacaromel@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs.Isabella Caromel" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <cmrs.isabella@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 06:42:51 -0700
Subject: Private Message To You

Good day
Private Message to you,

Greetings to you in the name of our heavenly father. This email might come to you as a surprise, and then temptation to ignore it could come into your mind too, but please, consider it as a Divine Wish of God and accept it with a deep sense of humility. My Name is Isabella Caromel; I was a victim of tsunami disaster some time which eventually affected my spinal cord, and ear drum then claim my entire families, my husband and two sons. Presently I’m disabled by the catastrophe that struck me, therefore I’m now on a wheelchair after all treatments and no success. My state of health has made me decided to give a better life to the poor, since it has determine medically that I have some few months to live according to my doctor advice.

I now decided to leave a legacy for people to remember me. Therefore I will need you to build charity organizations for the less privilege since my health has finally confirmed deteriorated. With my present condition this project cannot be executed by me alone, so therefore I need your candid voluntarily support to execute the project to make this dream a reality. I have decided to
invest my $10.6M USD to help the less privileged, and you are chosen from my heart to help receive the funds from where it was kept secretly to build charity organizations for the less privilege to have some better life.

Please I will appreciate if you can indicate interest to help me actualize this last dream by replying back with the following. Include your personal contact details which will be forward to the deposited firm for onward communication with you on how to transfer the funds to you. I will also provide you the legal documents that will enable you claim the funds.

Please reply me at mrs.isabellacaromel@yahoo.com.hk without delay.

Remain blessed,
Mrs. Isabella Caromel

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