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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: "DHL COURIER DELIVERY SERVICES" <mrsemilyolivierjakman@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: dhlsarvices@post.com
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 15:12:33 -0400 (AST)
Subject: My Beloved,



My Beloved,

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.

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.


Website 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 the 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 3,600,000.00 (Three
Million Six Hundred Thousand British Pounds) with DHL express here in UK
four weeks ago to deliver to you, but I was very sick so I could not
send you an email until today, what you have to do now is to contact the
DHL express 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 bank draft showing that it is
not a Drug Money or meant to sponsor Terrorist attack in your Country

You have to contact the Security company now for the delivery of your bank
draft with this information bellow;


Contact Person: Mr Steve Green

Email: dhlsarvices@post.com

Phone: +44 704 577 1458


Again, you are not to pay for the delivering Charge, the Insurance premium
and the Clearance Certificate Fee of the bank draft because I have already
paid for them,
the only money you are expected to pay is 185 British Pounds for the
security keeping of the bank draft 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 185 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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