419 scam: "Mrs Kathy Dickson"<info@polarcoolroom.com.au> HI

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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:
- "your urgent reply" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
This email message is a "dying widow" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs Kathy Dickson" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <kathydicksonq@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 02:45:34 +0700
Subject: HI

Hello,

How are you today? I am Mrs Kathy Dickson suffering from cancerous ailment' I was married to Mr. John Dickson, my husband worked with Chevron/Texaco in the United Kingdom for twenty years before he died in the year 2005, My late husband deposited the sum of GB14.5 Million (Fourteen Million Five Hundred Thousand Pounds sterling) with a Bank, Recently my Doctor told me that I have limited days to live due to the stroke and cancerous problems I am suffering from I have decided to donate this funds to you believing you are going to use it for the work of God and want you to use my husband’s effort to fund the upkeep of widows and charities worldwide, I took this decision because I do not have any child that will inherit this money and my husband relatives are bourgeois and very wealthy persons and I do not want my husband hard and
earned money to be misused.
Awaiting your urgent reply,

With God all things are possible.

Your Sister,

Mrs Kathy Dickson

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