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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. Emily Olivier Jackman" <mrs.emilyolivierjackman@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: internationaltransfer@barclaysbnkonlineukplcc.co.uk
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 17:07:21 -0400
Subject: Please Contact Barclays Bank PLC, UK

I am Mother Emily 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 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 made us
to do same. I have presently deposited a Cheque in the sum of $800,000.00
(US Dollars) with Barclays Bank PLC UK to transfer to you once you write
for confirmation. What you have to do now is to contact the Barclays Bank
PLC UK as soon as possible to know when they will transfer this sum to you
as it has overstayed.

Please note that, I have paid for the account activation fee, Insurance
Premium and wire transfer Fee of the cash showing that it is not a Drug
Money or meant to sponsor Terrorism in your Country.

See Contact Address Below:

Barclay's Bank PLC, UK
1 Churchill Place
London, E14 5HP, United Kingdom
http://www.barclays.co.uk
internationaltransfer@barclaysbnkonlineukplcc.co.uk
Fax: +44 70-060-44233

Again, you are not to pay for the activation fee, the Insurance premium
and the wire transfer Fee of the Cheque because I have already paid for
them, the only money you are expected to pay is £200 (Two Hundred British)
for the Non Residence Clearance Certificate to enable the bank transfer
the sum to your local account without you paying any further charges for
transfer. I would have paid the fee but the bank 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 the bank to avoid any
mistake on the transfer.
Postal address:
Full Names:
Direct telephone number:

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.

God be with you and remain blessed.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Emily Olivier Jackman



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