419 scam: "MRS. FARIDA M. WAZIRI" <mrs.faridamzwaziri@qq.com> ARE YOU DEAD OR ALIVE????????????????????

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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:

The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "please endeavor to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "(efcc)" (This name is often mentioned in money recovery scams (re-scam): the real EFCC does not contact victims to offer to get their money back because that is near impossible. )
- "farida waziri" (This name is often mentioned in money recovery scams (re-scam): the real EFCC does not contact victims to offer to get their money back because that is near impossible. )
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "MRS. FARIDA M. WAZIRI" <mrs.faridamzwaziri@qq.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 21:44:14 -0700
Subject: ARE YOU DEAD OR ALIVE????????????????????

*EX-Economic & Financial Crime-*
*Commission (EFCC) Boss *
*101 West 8th Ave *
*Spokane, WA 99204, USA.*
*Phone: (509) 671-9132*
*Date: 07/15/2014*
*Confessing MY SINS:*

*Hi*

*Are you dead or alive? Why have you not been able to update us on the
status of the U.S. $ 750,000.00 assigned to you by Mrs. Farida Waziri my
wife M. as a payment for compensating you for the lie, cheat & Subjected
she's trouble you in the past During her tenor the Nigeria (EFCC Boss) on
the Which she confessed been influenced by the corrupt politicians in
Nigeria there making her go against her wish by betraying God & mankind.*

*Be informed that your silence in this matter is not helping Mr. Benjamin
Waziri I or my wife who has been lying critically sick here Sacred Heart
Medical Center in Spokane, WA USA, but even at her sick bed she has not
stop asking almost daily on basis the status of the fund transfer. *

*However, **I am begin on you in the name of God to find a place in your
heart to forgive my wife as **she strongly believed that her present
ailment has something to do with the evil she committed **against you & few
others in the past going by the fact that she had been diagnosed
severally **without
any useful result which made the hospital to declared that my wife case is
more of **spiritual/diabolic. *

*Please endeavor to confirm the receipt of this email at receipt by letting
us know if the said fund had been received from the paying Bank (Ecobank
PLC) already.*

*Yours Sincerely,*

*Mr. Benjamin O. Waziri for my wife*
*Mrs. Farida Waziri Mzaber,*
*Former Nigeria (EFCC) Boss.*

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