419 scam: "Mrs Lisa Melton"<carolec2@waika9.com> KINDLY READ AND RESPOND URGENTLY

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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.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +447978356761
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.
- goodwillforall1@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs Lisa Melton" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <goodwillforall1@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 12:06:39 -0700
Subject: KINDLY READ AND RESPOND URGENTLY

HI,

My name is Lisa Favor David Melton,am 68 years, am in undergoing chemotherapy and radiation therapy treatment
for Lung cancer which affected both Lungs and the doctors said I have
few days to live because of the cancer.

Am contacting you because my late husband left twenty Million, Five
Hundred Thousand dollars in bank under my care which I want you to receive
as my beneficiary, so that you can invest the funds and use 10% of the profits
which you will get from the investment to help the needy and the sick people
yearly.Or you can help the needy and the sick with the funds,if you can not invest the funds.
If you have the leading to help the needy,motherless, less privileged and widows within your locations and other places as my last wishes.
Please confirm and reply so that the funds can be transfer to you.And I will
inform my Bank through my lawyer in writing to transfer the fund to you as my Next of Kin and Sole Beneficiary,to carry out my last wishes.
Also send me your full names, email address and cell phone number and physical address and your location.Please will like to know your occupation.
Reply,to my email address: goodwillforall1@gmail.com
God bless you.
Mrs Lisa Melton
Tel:+447978356761

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