419 scam: lillian john <felberjulia90@gmail.com> Yours beloved sister,

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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 "dying widow" scam.
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.
- johnlillian76@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: lillian john <felberjulia90@gmail.com>
Reply-To: johnlillian76@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2021 11:19:30 +0000
Subject: Yours beloved sister,

Urgent from hospital.

My dear beloved one, this is Mrs. Lillian John I am from Estonia. I am
married to Mr. Lakic John , who worked with the Estonia embassy in Ivory
Coast for nine years before he died in 2010. We were married for eleven
years without a child. He died after a brief illness that lasted for only
four days.

There are funds I inherited from my late loving husband Mr. Lakic John, the
sum of ($7.8 million) which he deposited in a bank before his death, I need
an honest and Faithful person that can use these funds for humanitarian
work.

I took this decision because I don't have any child that will inherit this
money and I don't want a situation where this money will be used in an
ungodly way. That is why I am taking this decision, and my doctor has
confirmed to me that I have less than three weeks to live, having known my
condition I decided to donate this fund to a charity or individual that
will utilize this money to assist the poor and the needy in accordance to
my instructions.

I want you to use 70% of this funds for orphanages, school and church,
widows, propagating the word and other humanity works,The remaining 30%
should be yours for your efforts as the new beneficiary, Please if you
would be able to use these funds for humanitarian work kindly reply me as
soon as I have received your response, I will give you further directives
on how you are to go about the claims of the said funds.

kindly contact me with the email address

johnlillian76@gmail.com

Yours beloved sister,
Mrs. Lillian John.

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