419 scam: Mrs Vera Oiun <zahingundam@yahoo.com> Hello My Beloved

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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.
This email message is a "dying widow" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Mrs Vera Oiun <zahingundam@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mrsveraoiun@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 05:23:35 GMT
Subject: Hello My Beloved

Hello Dear,

Greetings, It is understandable that you may be a bit apprehensive because you do not know me, I am writing this mail to you with serious tears in my eyes and great sorrow in my heart, I decided to contact you due to the urgency of my situation, My Name is Mrs. Vera Ouin, Am contacting you from my country Russia. I want to tell you this because I don’t have any other option than to tell you as I was touched to open up to you, I am married to Late Dr. Anthony Oiun who worked with Russian embassy in Ouagadougou the capital city of Burkina Faso: in west Africa before he died. We were married without a child. He died after a brief illness that lasted for only five days. Since his death I decided not to remarry again, when my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of $7.2 USD Million (Seven million two hundred thousand dollars) with a bank in Ouagadougou Burkina Faso

Mrs Vera

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