419 scam: "Mrs. Maria Coleman" <a961122@yahoo.co.jp> Greetings and God bless you from Mrs.Maria Coleman

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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!

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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.
This email message is a "dying widow" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Maria Coleman" <a961122@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: "Mrs. Maria Coleman" <mariacoleman977@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 22:59:01 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Greetings and God bless you from Mrs.Maria Coleman

My Dearest,

I know you will be surprise to read my email, apart from being
surprise you maybe skeptical to reply back to me because based on what
is going on in the internet world, one has to be very careful because
a lot of scam are out there to scam innocent citizen and this has made
it very difficult for people to believe anything that comes through
the internet but this is a different case.

With due Respect and Humanity I write to donate and hand over this
fund to you for orphanages and widows / less privileged and propagate
the gospel of God(US$5.8M) Five million Eight hundred thousand
dollars deposited in a security firm in Cote d'Ivoire by my late
husband. I,Mrs Maria Coleman, 68 years old without a child, married to
late Engr.Fulbert Coleman from Israel who worked with Oil company
(PETROCI) Cote d'Ivoire before he died in the year 2012 after a
Cardiac Arteries Operation, presently my doctor said I will not last
for four months due to Colon Cancer, you are requested to send your
full name, telephone and fax number with your resident address for
documentation process to transfer the fund to you without any
hindrance to accomplish our vow to God.

Always pray for me daily.

Thanks and waiting your quick response.

God bless us

Mrs. Maria Coleman

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