419 scam: "J GLASSON"<beancounter1@ameritech.net> Re Yours in Christ.

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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.
- j.glasson50@yahoo.no (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "J GLASSON" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jglasson@live.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 14:30:18 -0700
Subject: Re Yours in Christ.

Greetings,

I am Mr James Glasson,a norwegein national,and a merchant living in caribean island, am formerly a budhist and later Converted into christian after the death of my wife and only son in an air mishap on a trip to brazil which caused me so much pain and anquish and years later i discovered that i have easophageal cancer.

Ever since i got to know my predicament i have realised that wealth without Christ is vanity. I thank GOD that i am now a born again Christian.

Being close to my grave as diagnosed recently by my doctors I want to donate a total sum of $14.6 Million in your care for Evangelism and support for the less Privileged, orphanage and Charity around you, this fund is the last of my money which i kept with the securitas in london and because i lived a reckless life i took a vow to donate this for mankind and charity as my last contribution on earth towards helping the less priviledged in the society.

Please ignore and delete this correspondence if you will not fulfill this obligation when you have the money at your disposal. You can reach me at my private email below j.glasson50@yahoo.no

Yours in Christ,

James Glasson.

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