419 scam: "Carol Evans Mulla" <efabian@cyberhotline.com> Dear Beloved-One,

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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.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Carol Evans Mulla" <efabian@cyberhotline.com>
Reply-To: <cemulla2@live.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 00:32:39 -0700
Subject: Dear Beloved-One,

Dear Beloved-One,

I do not know how you will take this letter i am writing you now,but i am doing this based on my christain faith and what tomorrow will be.I am also writing it to help people in need.

My name is Carol Evans Mulla am 75yrs old of age, I stay in Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust Stadium Road Woolwich London SE18 4QH.I am a good merchant, I have several industrial companies and good share in various banks in the world. I spend all my life on investment and co-operate business both is Asia, Europe and America here. All the way I lost my husband and two beautiful children in Plane Crash.

I am a very good woman with all cost I don't know much and care about people, since when I had an experience of my difficulty to sleep and give rest. Ending of last year (September) I was sent a letter of medical check up, as my personal doctor testify that I have a lung cancer, which can easily take off my life soon. I found it uneasy to survive myself, because a lot of my investment can not be run and manage by me again. I quickly call up a pastor/prophet to give me positive thinking on this solution, as my adviser. He ministered to me to share my properties, wealth, to motherless baby/orphanage homes people that need money for survivor, business woman and man for their investment and for future rising.

Therefore I am writing this letter to people who are really need of help to contact me urgently. So that I can make available preparation on that. Especially women of the day, who are divorced by their husband, why they cannot survive from feeding their self. Please contact me and stop weeping. Probably let me know what you really need the money for, and if you can still help me to money to nearest orphanages homes near your town. Now am so much with God, am now born again.

May the lord bless you, as you reach me, please to remind you don't belong to scammers or any act of fraudulent act on internet? I will give more information to you as I await your response immediately.

Thanks

Carol Evans Mulla

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