419 scam: ""From Mrs.Shirley Schadeberg""<test@ttca.edu.hk> Please, I have special request from you

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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 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.
- legalservices@exclusivemail.co.za (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <sshirleys@webmail.co.za>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 23:14:07 +0200
Subject: Please, I have special request from you

My Greetings and I need your prayers,Email: legalservices@exclusivemail.co.za*I am Mrs.Shirley Schadeberg , I amlegally married to Mr. JürgenSchadeberg, a German-born SouthAfrican photographer who covered thestruggle against apartheid and wonthe trust of Nelson Mandela,* *He alsolived, worked and taught in Londonand Spain**, after my husbandretirement. I am 76 years old and am suffering from longtime cancer ofthe breast. All indication from mydoctor that my condition is reallydeteriorating and it is quite obviousthat I wouldn’t live more than twomonths, according to my doctors andin all indication regards to medicalanalysis. This is because the cancerdisease has gotten to a very bad stagethat no hope for me to be a livingperson again. My husband died few yearsago and my 40 years period of marriagelife, still we could not produce anychild, I would like you to make adonation to assist with me expenses (to help keep alive a woman diagnos ed of Cancer )The only he

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