419 scam: "Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson"<wit6080@gmail.com> Urget Message (Not Spam)

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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:
- ",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)
- "00,000.00" (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)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <lizxand0@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 23:52:58 -0800
Subject: Urget Message (Not Spam)

Dear Email Owner,

This is to officially inform you that we have written to you before without getting respond from you and we believe that our previous mail did not get to you therefore we write you again. This is to inform you that we have been working towards the eradication of fraudsters and scam Artists in Africa with the help of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) United Nations (UN), European Union (EU) and FBI. We have been able to track down some scam artist in various parts of African countries which includes (Nigeria, Republic of Benin, Ghana and Senegal etc) and they are all in Government custody now, they will appear at International Criminal Court (ICC) soon for Justice.

During the course of investigation, they were able to recovered some funds from these scam artists and IMF organization have ordered the funds recovered to be shared among the 50 lucky scam victims listed around the World as a compensation. This notice is been directed to you because your email address were found in one of the scam artist file and computer hard-disk during the investigation, so we figured you may have been scammed. You are therefore being compensated with the sum of US$5,000,000.00

Note that your email address is among the lucky beneficiaries in category “A” who will receive a compensation funds, we have arranged the fund to be paid to you through any of our contractual bank in UK or USA depending on your residing country.

You maybe well aware many foreigners have invested thousands of United States Dollars into Africa and European transactions in hopeless dreams to claim their fund but all to no avail. As directed by UNITED NATION AND WORLD BANK (EU), we have agreed with the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and European Union Committee that US$5,000,000.00 would be paid to you through any of our affiliated bank in UK or United States of America.

We advise you to stop all further communications with anyone claimed to be in charge of your fund as that is another confirmed scam.

Yours in services,

Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson

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