419 scam: "Mrs. Alice Jones"<ddffddd15@yahoo.com> Beloved,COME TO THIS SITUATION!

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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:
- "dear beloved," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "utmost confidentiality" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
- "remain blessed" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
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.
- alicejonesprivate@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Alice Jones" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <alicejonesprivate@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 21:00:45 +0100
Subject: Beloved,COME TO THIS SITUATION!

Dear Beloved,

I hope this email meets you in good health, I have been worried why you are yet to reply my previous email to you or if you ever received it. Like I told you, I am Mrs Alice Jones, married to Late Mr Peter Jones, who was a well established business merchant before he passed on. Please carefully read and understand my reason for contacting you through this email and Reply me please .

For the past 2 years I have been going through so much depression and I am willing to share my pains with you. please I do not want you to turn me down at this point because my health depends on it. I lost my husband and my only son to a car accident and this has really shorted life for me and to crown it all, after the funeral ceremony, my late husbands relatives took all my belonging and everything belonging to me and my family because I do not have a child for their brother anymore.

Ever since then, they have paid no attention to my welfare. It was hell for me after the funeral so I had to leave the family home. While leaving my home, I took along with me the documents concerning my late husbands investment in the value of $5m in one of the banks in Europe and I have proposed this investment for charity. Due to my poor health status and the presence of my late husbands relatives around me, I ask for your assistance.

Please, I need you to help me secure the investment fund for my welfare and charity purpose. I want you to partner with me in securing this funds to your account in your country and use to implement a charity project in my late husbands name.

In appreciation of your help at the successful delivery of the funds to you, you are to keep 30% for yourself, and the remaining 70% for my welfare and my project.

please treat this project with utmost confidentiality and respond to my letter immediately via my private email (alicejonesprivate@hotmail.com) with the following information

1. Your Full names......
2. Your Address......
3. Your Telephone /Fax......

On reception of the above information's, will enable me commence all arrangement for the purpose of our partnership to the bank so you will represent me as my partner for the investment to be released to you to commence on my project. Subject to your response, I will give you more information on how to secure the funds and how we will handle the project.

Remain Blessed,
Mrs. Alice Jones

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