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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. Emilly Olivier Jackman" <doru@mailbox.ro>
Reply-To: morrismark_uk@mail2uk.com
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:06:37 +0300 (EEST)
Subject: Inheritance Offer (Contact DHL/Mr.Mark Morris)




My Dear,

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. 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 Emilly Olivier, 87 Years

old woman and the wife of Late Sir Jackman Olivier 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 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 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 and I.

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, irrespective of your previous
financial status, hence I need you to do

me a favor by accepting our offer that will cost you nothing.

I have presently deposited a Cheque in the sum of 5,800,000.00 British
Pounds with DHL express to

deliver to you, what you have to do now is to contact the DHL COURIER
SERVICE as soon as possible

to know when they will deliver your package to you because of the expiring
date.

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. Mark Morris
Email Address: mrmorrismark.dhl@gmail.com dhlglobalexpress@mail2london.com


Tell: +44 704 576 1052

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 165

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.

Let me repeat again, try to contact them as soon as you receive this mail
to avoid any further delay and

remember to ask them to provide you with the method they wish to use in
receiving their security keeping

fee of 165 British Pounds for their immediate action.

Note: Please I do not want you to thank me or 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 is the only way
this world would be a better

community if we render selfless services to one another.


Yours Faithfully
Mrs. Emilly Olivier Jackman

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