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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:

Fraud email example:

From: "Susan Williams" <suswilliams001@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: suswilliams001@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:42:16 +0100
Subject: DEAREST FRIEND

From Susan Williams


Greetings Dear Friend,

Compliments of the season, how are you and the family,hope they are all
well,well as for mine we are very much fine, My name is susan williams,
Ilive here in London, I work with Reliance Security and Storage Deposit
FirmLondon South England, I am 38 years old.I write this letter withgreat
pleasure, I discovered a British Oilconsultant/contractor with the Kuwait
solid Minerals Corporation. MADAM
JENIFER WOODS, who Made a deposit valued at TEN Million Dollars.

According to the company's record,she has not come to pick up her
depositafter 3 years, she was sent a routine notification to her
forwardedaddressbut got no reply after a month,they sent a reminder and
finally theydiscovered from her contract employers, the Kuwait solid
mineralscorporations, that MADAM JENIFER, died a year ago,when I went
onfurtherinvestigation I found out that she died with out declaring a Next
ofKineven in her deposit documents, and all attempts to trace her Kin's
wasfruitless.

All staff of The Seucrity firm does not know the content of the deposit
ismoney, i was conduct a search on unclaimed consignment in our
custodyanddiscovered it contained cash deposit, which no one but myself
knowabout, ifno one applies to claim the fund, it would be confiscated by
Board of Director of the Security and Storage Deposit Firm,and opened in
thepresentof government officials and once all this is done it would
betransfered tothe goverment coffer.

Consequently my proposal is that you stand as a foreigner and make
claims asthe next of kin to MADAM JENIFER so that the fruits of this
oldwoman'slabour will not get into the hands of some bad top officials here,
Thisissimple, I will first of all get you an attorney to draft
thenotarization of the will and help you obtain the necessary documents to
backup your claims in your favor as the true beneficiary.

please observe utmost confidentiality, and be rest assured this is 100%
riskfree.
This transaction falls on my table so no body is going to question it,
untili am unable to provide a next of kin, so you dont have anything to
worry about.

I want you to know that my main purpose of doing this,is because i
believein doing good, so i suggest that you keep 30% for yourself,while
30%come tome and 35% goes to charity, the remaining 5% will be for our
expenditure.

And also your area of specialization is not a hindrance to the
successfulexecution, I have reposed my confidence in you and hope that you
will not disappoint me, Kindly Notify me by email for further details upon
youracceptance of this proposal.


susan williams
Reliance Security & Storage
Deposit Firm London South England

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