419 scam: "Mrs. Christy Walton" <support@admin.in.th> (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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "million united state dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "keep this confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
- "united state of america" (this email uses bad English)
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Christy Walton" <support@admin.in.th>
Reply-To: christywalton92@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 05:44:16 +0530 (IST)
Subject:

My Dearest,

Greeting to you my dear Brothers and Sisters the good people of this
planet earth I am writing you this e-mail not to disturb you, but to ask
for your assistant based on my personality and my present condition in
life and in particular what I intend doing for CHARITY. I am Mrs. Christy
Walton the 2nd Richest Woman in the world and a great citizen of United
State of America, I bring to you a proposal which I want you to assist me
with. I worth $ 22.5 billion Dollars which rated me as the 2nd Richest
Woman in the World.

As the saying goes Money is not everything in life, its painful to let the
world know my present condition as a cry for help. Today I have decided to
donate what I have to the poor. I am diagnosed with esophageal cancer for
about 6 years ago and now I have few months to live, according to medical
experts. I want you to help me donate from what I have inherited from my
late husband to the poor and needy. I have alredy shared my asset among my
family in my Will currently with my Lawyer which my Family is aware of.
But there is 2% of my Bank Worth which is $180,000,000 (One Hundred and
eighty million United State Dollars) which nobody is aware of except my
lawyer.

I intend to give it to CHARITY because I have not since there is nobody
from my Family, Relations and Friends which I trust to help me out. And I
have always had this DREAM to help CHARITY and I have always promise
myself that I must do this very big at my end time for CHARITY, can I
please trust you to help me give to CHARITY this heave amount of Money
because I have just about 4 Months left to live.As I write to you now am
full of Tears because I await my death.

Please reply me back with your below details to enable us proceed further
and please keep this confidential.

NAME.............................
ADDRESSES...................
MOBILE:........................
OCCUPATION...................

God Bless You.

Mrs. Christy Walton
christywalton@admin.in.th
http://www.myriadifa.com/2010/04/christy-walton-richest-woman-in-world.html

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