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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" <emillyjackmanf101@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:23:01 +0200
Subject: Re: Contact South Wales Security Company (UK) Ltd !!



Greetings!! 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. The internet has made the world global
villages where you can reach anybody you have not met before.

As you read this mail, I do not want you to fill sorry for me as I believed
everyone will die someday, I am Mother Emilly Olivier, 65 Years old widow of
Late Sir Olivier Jackman an oil merchant and a dual citizen of France and
Britain who died in a Plane crash on Monday the 7th of September 1998
GMT 14:22
UK while flying from New York to Geneva. You may confirm this from this link
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/index.html

As a result to the shock from the lost of my beloved husband, I became
very sick
and was placed under serious medical attention. Currently, I have been
diagnosed
of a terminal ailment and my doctors have informed me that I cannot survive,
and as such, I decided to use the remaining days of my life to render selfless
services by donating all I had inherited from my late husband to
charity homes,
to some of the less privilege in different countries, friends and
family and to
several unknown individuals in different countries.

Irrespective of your previous financial status, I plead with you to
accept this
kind gesture as you are one of the beneficiaries of my donation. Exactly Two
months ago, I deposited a bank draft valued at 5,800,000.00 British
Pounds with
a security keeping company to deliver to you via any Courier service as upon
your contact with them, but I was unable to notify you earlier because I had a
surgical operation immediately after I made the deposit and my doctor
warned me
to stay far from anything that emits electromagnetic rays as they are
dangerous
to my health type. E.g. telephone, computers etc.

Considering the draft expiration date and to avoid theft or
misappropriation, I
took the risk and used a computer at the hospital to notify you today so that
you can urgently make contact with the security keeping company through the
contact email below for the delivery of your draft to you.

You are to contact:

South Wales Security Company (UK) Ltd
26 Ackland Road
Bridgend, South Wales
United Kingdom, CF31 1TF

Contact Person: Mr.Greg Ahmed
Dispatch Director
Tell : +44 792 452 4873

E-MAIL: southwales.security@eb2a.com


For your information, I have paid for the delivery Charges and the Insurance
Premium as required by the company and hence, you do not need to pay for the
above again. The only charges to be paid by you are £185.34 GBP only; this is
the accrued security keeping Fee of the draft so far in their custody.
This fee
would have been paid by me, but the company insisted that I should not, since
the time you will contact them is not specified and to avoid accumulated
security keeping fee on the draft.

Therefore, you are to contact the company as fast as possible on
receiving this
email to avoid further delays. Remember to ask them to provide you with the
method of paying the security keeping fee to them.

You are to also reconfirm the below information to them to avoid any
mistake on
the Delivery.
Postal address;
Full Names:
Direct telephone number;
The Security keeping code of the Draft: (SCT/0433/F )

Note: All further correspondence should be between you and the
dispatch director
of the security keeping company as I have been warned by my doctor to
stay away
from any objects that emits electromagnetic rays until my health
proves otherwise.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Emilly Olivier
emillyjackmanf101@gmail.com

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