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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: "Patriciahewitt@Parliament.gov.uk" <hon_patriciahewitt@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:50:39 +0100
Subject: CAN YOU BE TRUSTED ?






Dear Friend,

I am Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt MP. Leicester's first woman MP
in 1997 when I was elected Labour MP for Leicester West,
held a variety of top ranking roles in the Cabinet,
including Cabinet Minister for Women and Secretary of State
for Trade and Industry, and my last appointment was the
Secretary of State for Health under Her Majesty, Queen
Elizabeth of the United Kingdom.

I actually got your contact info via your country’s national
directory and intend introducing a project that has to do
with charity in your country and neighbouring countries
around you.

Before my retirement, I personally made an over estimation,
and stacked the sum of Six Million Three Hundred Thousand
Great Britain Pounds which I totally intend for the purpose
of charity and none other which will be supervised Attorney
as he will also be the one in charge of securing these funds
into your custody.

This transaction will result to you being paid a commission
of 11% of the investment capital and the balance,
distributed to charity organizations of your choice or
reinvested and the net income, used for rehabilitating
charity organization in and around your country through
you/your agency annually for the period of five years or a
little more. The last time I orchestrated this sort of
Grant, the individual in Australia succeeded in successfully
setting up three standard orphanage homes in less than a
year. I have never been so proud of such a noble individual.


If you are willing to execute this Humanitarian Project, You
must understand that I desire absolute confidentiality and
professionalism on this issue.
Please respond urgently if you are interested as the fund
are getting overdue, so I can equip you with the necessary
details, along side my Attorney’s contact information, so as
to commence the transaction properly; on the other hand, if
you are not, please let your intentions be known or better
still, Kindly relent from replying this email.

You could get personal info. on me via the Parliament sites
or on my official website, but do not try to contact me via
any personal information you may lay your hands upon on the
internet as almost all my contact info are connected to the
British House of Parliament data base except the ones I
personally sent to you; as I don’t want our effort and my
reputation, jeopardized.

Kindly send your response to this E-mail:

hon_patriciahewitt@yahoo.com.hk <-----------

Sincerely,
PATRICIA HEWITT MP.
FORMER SEC. OF STATE FOR HEALTH
233 OWEN WALK,
LONDON, SE37 88AQ
UNITED KINGDOM.
http://www.patriciahewitt.org.uk/


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