419 scam: "Mrs. Laura lindberg"<test@TRADE-IT.NET> Your Sister in Christ

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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:
- "million 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)
- "your urgent reply" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
This email message is a "dying widow" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Laura lindberg" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrslauralindberg1@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 08:34:26 +0800
Subject: Your Sister in Christ

God Bless You as You Devote Your Time Reading This Mail

May God Bless You as You read. I am Mrs Laura Lindberg,suffering from

cancerous ailment.

I was married to Mr.Brian Lindberg,my husband worked with

Chevron/Texaco in the United Kingdom for twenty years before he died

in the year 2013 during the Spanish train crash which took him away

from me. copy paste the link below for news info on

edition.cnn.com/2013/07/30/world/europe/spain-train-crash My late

husband deposited the sum of $ 25 Million (Twenty-Five Million

Dollars).

Recently,I am currently in India for the past two months undergoing

treatment and my Doctor told me that I have limited days to live due

to the stroke and cancerous problems I am suffering from.I have

decided to donate this funds to charity Home through you and want you

to use my husbands effort to fund the upkeep of widows and charities

worldwide.

I took this decision because I do not have any child that will inherit

this money and my husband relatives are bourgeois and very wealthy

persons and I do not want my husband hard earned money to be misused

so In This Faith i have decided so please be Obliged to do this for

GOD as i Await your urgent reply.

With God all things are possible.

Your Sister in Christ,

Mrs Laura Lindberg.

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