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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: "Mrs.Angelina Keith" (may be fake)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:46:29 +0100
Subject: PLEASE READ ITS URGENT


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 chose 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 right now and to the lives of others through you
if only you can carefully read and digest the message below.


Before I move further, permit me to give you a little of my
biography, I am Mother Angelina Keith, 87 Years old woman
and the wife of Late Sir Abery Keith who died in a Plane
crash on Monday the 7th of September 1998 GMT 14:22 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 in my Ranch before i finaly leave
the world, 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
have worked for to the less privilege and charity homes and
the other half for ourselves, family members and close
friends, and it is so unfortunate that 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.

Presently, I have willed out almost half of our assets to
several charity homes and to some of the 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 individual we have not meet
before in life due to the fact when we were still young in
life we receive 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 made us to do
same.

I am sorry to inform you that you will never have the
chance to know me 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
beneficiary of our last WILL, hence I need you to do me a
favor by accepting our offer.

I deposited some fund in the sum of 1,800,000.00 (One
Million Eight Hundred Thousand British Pounds) with DHL UK
four weeks ago to deliver to you, but i was very ill so i
could not send you an email until today. what you have to do
now is to contact the DHL COURIER SERVICE UK as soon as
possible to know when they will deliver your package
to you.
For your information, I have paid for the delivering
Charge, Insurance Premium and Clearance Certificate Fee of
the Cheque showing that it is not a Drug Money or meant to
sponsor Terrorist attack in your Country

You have to contact the DHL COURIER SERVICE now for the
delivery of your cheque with this information bellow;

Contact Person: Mr.George Greg
Email Address: george-greg@dhlexpressuk.net
Phone: +447024057874

Again, you are not to pay for the delivering Charge, the
Insurance premium and the Clearance Certificate Fee of the
Cheque because I have already paid for them, the only money
you are expected to pay is 160 British Pounds for the
security keeping of the cheque so far.

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 demurrage or further cost.You
are to reconfirm the below information to them to avoid any
mistake on the Delivery.

Postal address:
Full Names:
Direct telephone number:

Below is the security keeping code: (SCT/0433/F) of your
draft, you are to also present it to them for verification
before delivery.

Please, try to contact them as soon as you receive this
mail to avoid any further delay.

Be also 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 I have
nothing to do with cars, emails and other luxuries, all
further correspondence should be forwarded to the courier
company for the delivery of your cheque to you.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Angelina Keith

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