419 scam: Otega Mathew <m.mathewotega@msn.com> WITH GOD WE ASK

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "a security company " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
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.
- prince.otega@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Otega Mathew <m.mathewotega@msn.com>
Reply-To: <prince.otega@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 05:51:04 +0000
Subject: WITH GOD WE ASK

Dear Sir/MA,

I and my sister are very sorry for coming to you to this way, we got your email address from yahoo search, please kindly looking to this mail of us and get to us .

My name is Matthew. P. Otega, nationality of Sudan , 19 years old. Only son of my later parents, I have one next born, my lovely sister Sophia Otega 15 years old. Our father sent our mother back to her family due to the high rate of her sleeping with young boys. "Where ever are her spirit is, May God forgive her the wrongs, shame and pains she brought us".

After one year and six months our father packed our mother back to her family, she fell seriously sick and she was confirmed by the doctor that she is affected by HIV and she die after four months after 3 2 weeks.

The relations of my later mother were after my father because my dad is little bit rich, so my father sold his important investment, and I, my kid sister and our father few down to Ghana . Where he deposited almost all the money (US$6.7million dollar) in a security company and he state on it, me Matthew P. Otega as the next kin to the money. Below I attached the day my later father deposited the money and also is the day he was finally put to the ground.

To make the whole story shout, our father also passed away after a brief illness, at this point in time I and my sister need your help, because my late father statement in the agreement between him and the Security Company, is that ‘ THE MONEY SHOULD NOT BE RELASE TO ME WITHOUT ME HAVING A FOREIGN BENEFICIARY’

Who will invest the money for us and send us some of the money to enable us carry on our education, if possible he/she should adopt us by relocating us to his/her country to stay with him/she. These are the reason I and my sister Sophia have come to seek your help.

Please get back to us with your name and telephone number for voice communication between you and our church pastor.

Yours,
Mathew and Sophia
Email: prince.otega@yahoo.com

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