419 scam: "Mrs. Alice Flores Dunu"<admin@yinpengchina.com> I wait your urgent reply

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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:
- "your urgent reply" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- "remain blessed" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
This email message is a "dying widow" 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.
- mrsalicednu@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Alice Flores Dunu" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <MRSALICEFLORESDUNU@uymail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 15:43:09 -0000
Subject: I wait your urgent reply

I have contacted you with faith in God that you are not going to betray trust of a dying old woman bestowed on you in the name of God. To begin, My name is Alice Flores Dunu, a Nationality of Belize formerly British Honduras, born in USA in the States of Ohio in 1932. I am legally Married to Mr. Joshua Dunu, a Nationality of Ghana, We live together in London UK for 32 years before we move down to Ghana in 1985. I am 79 years old by the grace of God, I am a new Christian convert, suffering from long time cancer of the breast. From all indication by my doctor that my condition is really deteriorating and it is quite obvious that i wouldn't live more than two months, according to my doctor and in all indication regarding to medical analysis. This is because the cancer disease has gotten to a very bad stage that no hope for me to be a living person again. My dear husband was involved with the January 2000 Kenya airways plane crashed as you can see on the news line. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6627485.stm

47 years period of marriage life, still we could not produce any child. After the death of my husband, I started experiencing a different life on the same planet, my situation authomatically change from good to bad, my husband wicked relatives appeared from no where all against me because i am the only white woman married in the miss of black people, they have succeeded in taking over all my husband fortune but still I inherited some part of my husband business and money deposited in my name which they do not no about. The doctor has advised me that i may not live for more than two months and warn me to decease from thinking over who is going to takeover my inheritance, Today i have decided to donate contribute to the less privileges, Charity and Orphanage homes. I made my decision after listing to the news line about a 100 years old woman who secretly donated her fortune upon her death.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8o-e-iLsUM

My lawyer rejected the offer to help me carry out my project because he was frighten of several life treat letters from my husband relatives, He advised me to look for unknown foreigner who is going to help me receive the money and distribute it to the above mention homes. I choose you after viewing your profile and i have confident in you because i have prayed over it before contacting you, I am willing to donate the sum of $12.5 Million U.S Dollars, to the less privileged. please i want you to note that this money is still in the bank where my husband deposited it. I am going to advice my lawyer to make a change of ownership to your name and file in an application for the transfer of the money into your account, my lawyer has accepted to take care of what ever it is going to cost to achieve the money into your account. Lastly, I honestly pray that this money when transferred will be used for the work of God

May the grace of our lord Jesus the love of God and the fellowship of God be with you and your family, amen, please i will be glad to tell you more about myself and my desire once i receive your reply with a positive answer to assist me. for further discussion please contact me here: mrsalicednu@gmail.com

I wait your urgent reply
Remain Blessed
Mrs. Alice Dunu

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