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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: =?iso-8859-1?q?gerry=20williams?= <gerrywilliams2005@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 11:26:19 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: FROM GERRY WILLIAMS


J'ai une nouvelle adresse mailVous pouvez maintenant m'écrire à : gerrywilliams2005@yahoo.fr

FROM RAYMOND JOHNSON

E-mail: gerrywilliams2005@yahoo.fr

PENISULLA PLAZA

SINGAPORE.



Good day,



I am MR GERRY WILLIAMS. I am 21 years of age. I am the only child of late Chief and Mrs. PETER WILLIAMS. My father was a former director of TELKOM SIERRA LEONE in the economic capital of SIERRA LEONE, our father was poisoned to dearth by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip. My mother died here in Singapore last year. I am a heir to the sum of Twenty Eight million , Five hundred thousand United State Dollars (USD28.5Million) left in a security company as family valuables for security reasons in Malaysia, that he used my name as his only son for the next of Kin in depositing of the fund. But due to my status here in Singapore where I presently reside, I am denied certain human rights like operating an account, etc. I want you as a Foreign partner to assist me in moving this funds from here to where this money can be transferred into for safe guarding and investment until I can be able to leave this country to be with you. You have to come down here to retrieve the money from the security company and open a non-residential account for easy transfer of the money to your desinated account. I cannot be able to handle this transfer on my own as I am inexperience to business idea and also banking procedures.



I am willing to offer to you 20% of the total Money and also a negotiable percentage for the investment project. I will forward all the documents concerning this deposit to you on confirming to me your interest to assist me in this my critical situation and I believe that this transaction would be concluded as soon as possible if you signify interest to assist me so that I can be able to leave this country.



Furthermore, Please,Sir, if you think you can be of an assistance to this my problem try to contact me on our private e-mail addresse gerrywilliams2005@yahoo.fr above for more discussion and modalities of this transaction and Please, Help me to get out of this terrible situation and our Almigthy God will bless you.



Anicipating to hear from you soon.



Thanks and God bless.



Best regards,

GERRY WILLIAMS.

- gerry williams


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