419 scam: "Mrs. Maria Nina Jimenez"<marianinaj@yahoo.co.jp> DIVINE DIRECTION= KINDLY READ FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING.

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "the consignment" (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)
- "consignment " (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)
- "hundred thousand us dollars" (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)
- ",500,000" (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)
- "00,000.00" (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)
- "waiting for your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- "here in united kingdom" (this email uses bad English)
This email message is a "dying widow" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Maria Nina Jimenez" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <maria_ninaj@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:14:25 -0000
Subject: DIVINE DIRECTION= KINDLY READ FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING.

Dearest Beloved!

Please don’t be snubbed for contacting you without your prior consent as we have not known before. I got your contact from a database found in internet while searching for a reliable and honest person that will execute my philanthropic desire for the destitute. I was divinely inspired to pick you among others found in the database.

I am Mrs. Maria Nina Ramos Jimenez from Colombia undergoing medical treatment in a Private Hospital here in United Kingdom. I am the wife of late Dr. Ramos Jimenez who was born in Colombia in 1944, a Colombian self-made millionaire and business tycoon before he died in the year 2000 after a brief illness that lasted for only four day. Before his sudden death, we were married for twenty-Nine years without a child and both of us are committed born again christians. While my husband was alive, he deposited the sum of USD52,500,000.00 (Fifty-Two Million, Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars Only) with my full knowledge as consignment with one of the Security Firm and the consignment has been with the company up till date. He deposited the money with the intention to establish a heart foundation where people with heart related diseases will be treated especially the destitutes because of our keen interest for the less privileged.

Since he died without accomplishing this great dream and my doctor recently told me that I have a short time to live due to the fact that the cancer illness that I am suffering has infected my lungs which has led to partial paralysis, therefore I decided to seek for your sincere assistance to utilise this funds to execute my late husband's desire. My Late husband made me to understand that we are called to live a sacrificial life hence my decision to ensure that his desires for the less privileged are accomplished now that I am alive. I recently received a notification letter from the holding security firm to come for the collection of the deposited consignment of my late husband hence my contact to you as my health condition will not warrant me to do so and I want you to be my representative in taking possession of the deposited funds as consignment on my behalf for its purpose as mentioned above.

We took this decision while he was alive because we don't have any child that will inherit this money and my husband's relatives are extravagant and has benefited so much from us, therefore I don't want this money to be misappropriated by them without accomplishing the purpose my late husband mapped it out for.

If you will volunteer and be of a sincere assistance to execute this project on my behalf, I will surely appreciate and you will be handsomely rewarded.

Waiting for your urgent response.

Yours in the Hospital,
Mrs. Maria Nina Ramos Jimenez.

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