419 scam: "Mrs. Leah Rose Apao" <paulavogelci1@gmail.com> From: Mrs. Leah Rose Apao

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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:
- "dear beloved," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "million us 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)
This email message is a next of kin 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.
- leahroseapao1@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Leah Rose Apao" <paulavogelci1@gmail.com>
Reply-To: 123aileev56@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 09:05:12 +0000
Subject: From: Mrs. Leah Rose Apao

From: Mrs. Leah Rose Apao
Address: 11 Temple Drive Green meadows
Subdivision 8510 Quezon City, Philippines
E-mail: leahroseapao1@hotmail.com

Dear Beloved,

My name is MRS. LEAH ROSE APAO, The wife of Mr. ANGELO APAO, I am a
citizen of the Philippines, A business woman specialized in mining of
raw Gold in Africa; but now I'm critically sick with oesophageal
cancer which has damaged almost all the cells in my body. My late
husband died in an Car accident with our Son few years ago leaving me
with our two daughters and they are still child that is my most
concern now as they does not know anything about live and has nobody
to take care of them if I died; because I and my late husband does not
have any relatives, we both grew up in the orphanage home and got
married under orphanage as orphans. So, if I die now my innocent
children would be left alone in this wicked world and I do not wish to
send them to any orphanage home; I want them to grow up in the hands
of an individual, not an orphanage.

The amount deposited the sum of ($35,000.000 USD (Thirty-Five Million
Us Dollars) from the sales of gold and this money is deposited with a
firm in Abroad in a metallic box which we want to transfer to your
account. Please note that as soon as the fund is transferred to your
account, you shall take 30% of the total amount transferred to your
account as my representative and the trustee of my children, and use
70% for the up keeping of my little children.

Please reply immediately with your full details if you agree to help
me, I hope that you can be trusted, that you will not sit on this
money when you claim it I will give you the contact of the security
company for you to contact them and give them your address for the
immediate shipment of the box to you in your country so that you we
arrange for the transfer of the fund to your own bank account before
anything happens to me, because I will undergo surgery by next week,
and I do not know what will be the result of the surgery as the doctor
has told me already that I may not survive. Please I wait to hear from
you know it's a matter of urgency.

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Leah Rose Apao

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