419 scam: "Aabidah Aadam" <info@charity.org> Social and Charity work in your state(Can you handle this)?

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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.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Aabidah Aadam" <info@charity.org>
Reply-To: aabidahaadam@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 22:44:49 +0530
Subject: Social and Charity work in your state(Can you handle this)?

Dearly beloved

My name is Mrs Aabidah Aadam from Ireland, I am a sick widow with no child left after the death of my only child with my husband in a car accident on our way back from visitation on the month October 2013

I have greatly appreciated God for his blessings and love to keep me alive up to this moment though I have been battling with my ill-health as i was diagnosed of Chronic leukemia even before the death of my husband and only daughter and cancer of the intestine.

Because of my ill health coupled with my age,I have decided to donate fund to orphanage, and Charity work to help the less privileged, helpless and homeless people in your area.

Please, if you can do this work sincerely and use this fund for what I have asked for, please contact me as this is as God has laid it in my heart.

God bless you,
Mrs Aabidah Aadam

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