419 scam: "Sarah"<sourcingloggs@gmail.com> Re: Charity Donation For You...

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
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:
- ",000,000" (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)
- "your urgent reply" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
This email message is a "dying widow" scam.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- ricalijac@optusnet.com.au (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Sarah" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ricalijac@optusnet.com.au>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 17:54:49 -0700
Subject: Re: Charity Donation For You...

Attention,

Please accept my sincere apologizes if my email does not meet your business or personal ethics,It is by
the grace of God that I received Christ,knowing the truth and the truth have set me free.Having known
the truth I had no choice than to do what is lawful and right in the sight of God for eternal life and in the
sight of man for witness of God?s mercy and glory upon my life.

I am Mrs Sarah Shumejda from San Antonio Texas.I am married to late Mr.John Shumejda who was the
President of agricultural equipment giant.AGCO Corp, who perished on the 4th of January 2002 in a
plane crash in Birmingham. Please View the Website below:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/1742404.stm
http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/01/04/england.plane/

We were married for twenty-seven years without a child,Since his death I decided not to re-marry.When
my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of ($5,000,000,00)(five Million US.Dollars)with a bank
in the Texas here and now the management of the bank have just wrote me to come forward to receive
the money or rather issue a letter of authorization to somebody to receive it on my behalf if I can not
come over.

I am presently with my laptop in a hospital where I have been undergoing treatment of the lungs, I have
since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have only a few months to live.It is my
last wish to see that this money is invested and at the end of every year distributed among charity
organization. And for your compensation, as soon as the money enters your account take 25% of the
total money for yourself, 5% for any expenses while 70% will be for the work of GOD charity

I took this decision because i know that there are a lot of poor people suffering from different kind of
disease and nobody to come to their aid.With God all things are possible. As soon as I receive your reply
I shall give you the contact of the bank were the money is been deposit .I will also issue you a letter of
authority and certificate of claim that will prove you as the new beneficiary of this fund. Please assure
me that you will act accordingly as I stated here. I await your urgent reply you can provide

1 your full name
2 telephone number /cell number for easy communication.
3 Residential Address:

My email contact is ( ricalijac@optusnet.com.au )
Yours in Christ,
Sarah Shumejda

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