419 scam: Rosemary Van Bomen <sunrisemicrofinanceltd@gmail.com> (no subject)

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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: Rosemary Van Bomen <sunrisemicrofinanceltd@gmail.com>
Reply-To: rosemaryvanbomen@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2022 01:27:40 -0700
Subject:

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I am Mrs. ROSEMARY VAN BOMEN, I am 61 years old, I am deaf and
suffering from a long time cancer of the lungs which also affected my
brain, from all indication my condition is really deteriorating and it
is quite obvious. According to my doctors I might not be alive in the
next two months, this is because the cancer stage has gotten to a very
bad stage.

I was brought up from a motherless babies home, was married to my late
husband for twenty five years without a child. My husband died in a
fatal motor accident. Before his death we were true Christians. Since
his death I decided not to re-marry, I sold all my inheritance and
belongings and deposited all the funds ($18.5 million) dollars with a
Bank.

Presently, this money is still with them and the management just wrote
me as the true owner to come forward to receive the money for keeping
it so long or rather issue a letter of authorization to somebody to
receive it on my behalf.

I look forward to your reply if you are interested in helping out.

MRS ROSEMARY.

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