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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: "Jesse Gourlet" <jesse.gourlet@student.sintlucas.wenk.be>
Reply-To: andersonwhite1@o2.pl
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:17:09 +0200
Subject: Contact Interworld Holding Company For Cheque Delivery

GREETINGS!
I am sure this mail would be coming to you as a surprise since we have never met before
and you would also be asking why I have decided to choose you amongst the numerous
internet users in the world, precisely I cannot say why I have chosen you but do not be
worried for I come in peace and something very positive is about to happen to your life
and the lives of others through you if only you can carefully read and digest the
message below.
The internet has made the world global villages where you can reach anybody you have not
met before.

Before I move further, permit me to give you a little of my biography, I am Mother
Judith Alex Wilcox, 87 Years old woman and the wife of Late Sir Alex Wilcox who died in
a Plane crash on Monday the 7th of September 1998 GMT 4:22 UK while they were flying
from New York to Geneva. Please see site below for more information:
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/index.html

After the death of my husband I became the Head of his investment and now that I am old
and weak I have decided to spend the rest of my life with my family and loved ones whom
I never had time for during the course of my business life, but before the death of my
husband we had a plan to use the last days of our lives to donate half of what we had
worked for to the less privilege/charity homes and the other half for ourselves, family
members and close friends. Unfortunately, my husband is not alive today to do this with
me and I am very weak and old now, hence I have decided to do this philanthropic work on
behalf of my late husband and I.

Presently, I have willed out almost half of our assets to several charities homes/less
privilege in different countries.

Despite the agreement between my late husband and I to give aid to the deprived, we also
agreed to render support to an unknown individual we have not met before due to the fact
that when we were still young in life we received an anonymous help from an individual
we did not know and which we have not being able to know till date, the impact we got
from such gesture gave us the impression to pay it forward by doing same to an unknown
person.

I am sorry to inform you that you will never have the chance to know me nor will I
respond to your next email because I have just concluded the assignment which my husband
and I have agreed upon before his sudden death and you happened to be the Unknown
beneficiary of our last WILL irrespective of your previous financial status. Hence, I
need you to do me a favor by accepting our offer that will cost you nothing.

Three weeks ago I deposited a Cheque in the sum of $1,500,000.00 US Dollars with
INTERWORLD HOLDING COMPANY to deliver to you upon your contact with them, but I was
unable to notify you timely because of my ill health, what you have to do now is to
contact the COMPANY as soon as possible to know when they will deliver your package to
you because of the expiring date on the Cheque. For your information, I have paid the
delivering cost, the Insurance premium and clearance Certificate fee of the Cheque
showing that it is not meant to sponsor terrorism in your country. The only money you
are expected to pay is $135 US Dollars for the Security Keeping of the Cheque for three
weeks. I would have paid the fee but the company insisted that I should not because they
don't know when you will be contacting them and to avoid further cost.

You have to contact the Company now for the delivery of your Cheque with this
information bellow;
Contact Person: Mr. Anderson White
Email;andersonwhite1@o2.pl
Phone No;+447024086540


You are to reconfirm the below information to them to avoid any mistake on the Delivery
and ask them to provide you with the method they wish to use in receiving their accrued
security keeping fee of $135 US Dollars for their immediate action.

Postal address:
Full Names:
Direct telephone number:
Security Keeping Code: (ITW/001/C)

Below is the security keeping code: (ITW/001/C) of you draft, you are to also present it
to them for verification before delivery.

Note: Please do not thank me nor my husband, all I need you to do is to invest wisely
with it and do the same good to someone’s life someday as this world would be a better
community if we render selfless services to one another.

Also, be notified that I will no longer be reading my emails or surfing the internet as
I have retired completely from the outside world to my ranch, at this moment all further
correspondence should be forwarded to the courier company for the delivery of your
Cheque to you.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Judith Alex Wilcox


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