419 scam: Mrs William Helen <fedexcourierc5@gmail.com> RE

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
- "remain blessed" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
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.
- mshelenmbali@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
- from you. contact me immediately on my private email: ( mshelenmbali@gmail.com ) any delay in your reply will give me (Gmail; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: Mrs William Helen <fedexcourierc5@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mshelenmbali@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 12:24:37 +0200
Subject: RE

My Beloved in Christ,
Permit me to share with you, my desire to go into Godly business
partnership with you. I got your profound contact email from a computerized
data, following my fasting Super major" oil companies in the world as their
Africa drilling rig supplier for 17 years before his death On Christmas Eve
2013.

* Before his death we were both devout born again Christian; lay-preacher
and former social worker and my late husband Alan Greaves; was an organist
at the church for 40 years, before his was attacked and beaten with a
pickaxes on his way to play at Midnight Mass at St Saviors Church in
Sheffield and he died in hospital three days later as you can confirm this
link as
statedbelow:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2529286/A-year-murder-organists-widow-breaks-vigil.html
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2529286/A-year-murder-organists-widow-breaks-vigil.html>A
year after his murder, organist Alan Graves' widow ... www.daily mail.co.uk
<http://mail.co.uk/> The widow of a church organist fatally injured on
Christmas Eve last year played a leading role in an emotional candlelit
service at the spot where he was attacked
...http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-25417344
<http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-25417344> When my late
husband was alive, he deposited the sum of ($4.5M) with a bank in Cotonou
Benin where he worked for 17 years last as the (Total S.A.) Africa drilling
rig supplier.I am contacting you because of the recent report from my
Doctor told me that I have some weeks to live due to cardiac and kidney
failure problem, having known my condition, I seek your concept and
permission to present you to the bank as as my late husband foreign
investors to retrieve the fund and utilize for establishing an orphanages
home for the poor and needy, and also propagating the word of God and to
endeavor that the house of God is maintained.I shall give you the full
detail documents of the fund as soon as I hear from you. Contact me
immediately on my private email: ( mshelenmbali@gmail.com
<alenajone@aol.com> ) Any delay in your reply will give me room in sourcing
another good person for this same purpose.Hoping to receive your response
immediately.Thanks and Remain blessed in the Lord.l remain yours sister in
Christ.Mrs. Helen J.M. GreavesChurch Army evangelist.A year after his
murder, organist's widow breaks down at vigil Alan Graves, 68 (inset) was
beaten with a pickaxe on his way to play Midnight Mass in St Saviour's
Church in Sheffield. His widow Maureen, 64 (left) wept at a memorial
service in the church a year after hisdeath. dailymail.co.uk
<http://dailymail.co.uk/> *

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