419 scam: Pastors Williams <pastorswilliams1049@gmail.com> My Dear.

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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 "New Partner from Paraguay" 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.
- pastormihaela31@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Pastors Williams <pastorswilliams1049@gmail.com>
Reply-To: pastormihaela31@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 09:37:11 +0100
Subject: My Dear.

*My Dear.I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting my funds
transferred to a Swiss Account under the cooperation of a new partner from
Australia.Presently I'm move to Australia this night around 5 am my local
time with my child for me to undergo a major cancer operation which is
scheduled to be hold next week Thursday,for my surgery, in Australia and
for investment projects with my own share of the total sum. Meanwhile, I
didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring
those funds despite that it failed us somehow. Now contact my (Pastor)His
name is Pastor Mihaela EMAIL: pastormihaela31@gmail.com
<pastormihaela31@gmail.com>Contact him and ask him to send you the total of
$500.000.00 (Five hundred thousand USD) ATM CARD which I kept for your
compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this
matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much, so feel free and
get in touched with my (Pastor Mihaela) and instruct him where to send the
ATM CARD to you. Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that
we can share the joy after all the sufferer at that time. in the moment,Do
send to (Pastor Mihaela), your contactdetails.Your full name
.................Your address:....................Your
country:....................Your Phone number:...............To enable him
submit your details to paying bank, For the moment, I am very busy here
because of the investment projects which me and my new partner are having
at hand, finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to my (Pastor
Mihaela) on your behalf to receive that ATM CARD, Now get in touch with him
and he will send the ATM to you immediately, I will not be able to check my
email again because i will be busy when i arrive Australia Tomorrow
morningThanks and God bless you.Yours Faithfully,*

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