419 scam: "Mrs. Ann P. Owen" <complaints@wahlcn.com> I am Mrs. Ann P. Owen

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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:
- "million pounds" (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 next of kin scam.
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.
- mrspatricedws@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Ann P. Owen" <complaints@wahlcn.com>
Reply-To: <mrspatricedws@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 21:14:46 +0100
Subject: I am Mrs. Ann P. Owen

Please accept my sincere apologizes if my email does not meet your business or personal ethics. I am Mrs. Ann P. Owen , I am

51 years old, a widow to late Mr.John Owen who was the President of agricultural equipment giant, who perished on the 4th of

January 2002 in a plane crash in Birmingham.

After going through some files of my late husband, I discovered a Deposit Certificate of (15Million) (Fifteen Million Pounds)

with a Bank in Canada. But due my sickness, I have not been able to claim this fund from the Bank, as I have been in the

hospital in Liverpool and my sickness continue getting worst.

I am suffering from a protracted cancer of the lungs which has affected my brain. From all indication my condition is really

deteriorating, and my doctors have courageously advised me that I may not live beyond the next Six months to eight months,

this is because the cancer stage has reached a critical stage.

I am contacting you based on trust to present you to the Bank as the Next of Kin and Bonafide Inheritor to my Late Husband's

fund, since I cannot claim this fund myself now and I may not live beyong next six-eight months according to my Doctors, but

I have the faith in God that I will live more than the months my Doctors said by God grace.Presently, I'm with my laptop in

the hospital where I have been undergoing treatment in Liverpool.

Please! Please!! Your help is needed to avoid this money been diverted to the Government of Canada as unclaimed fund/dormant

account.Imagine somebody who have no child, I have nobody taking care of me here in the Hospital, and the money I have now is

limited. Of which, that ?15 Million is my only hope to continue my treatment here in the Hospital, and hopefully by God grace

I will survive.If you will so kind to be of help, I will be very glad and only God will reward you for that. Upon the

successful claim/transfer of the fund in your account as the next of Kin, 40% of the total fund will be taking as your own

share, 10% goes to the Orphanage homes, while the remaining 50% will be transfer to my account here in Liverpool for my

treatment. Please in your response, send me the following information to enable me validate you as the legal beneficiary of
this funds:

1. Your full names
2. Mobile phone number/home phone number/office phone number
3. Age, Address and Marital status
4. Company's name & address
5. Name of your next of kin.

These whole information is what I need from you so that I can present a Letter of Authorisation to the Bank where the money

is deposited to contact you as the beneficiary for this funds transfer. Send your urgent response to (mrspatricedws@gmail.com

)
Your assistant will be highly appreciated.

Thanks and God bless.
Mrs. Ann P. Owen
mrspatricedws@gmail.com

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