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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 Jackman Olivier" <dasanche@itesm.mx>
Reply-To: emilyjacom@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:06:49 -0700
Subject: Contact FedEx Immediately !

GREETINGS!
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 choose you
amongst the numerous internet users in the world, precisely I cannot say
why I have chosen you but do not be worried for I come in peace and something
very positive is about to happen to your life right now and to the lives
of others through you, if only you can carefully read and digest the message
below. 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 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 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 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 £5,800,000.00 British Pound
with FedEx express to deliver to you, what you have to do now is to contact
the FedEx COURIER SERVICE 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 Cheque showing that it is not a Drug Money or meant to sponsor
Terrorist attack in your Country.

You have to contact the FedEx COURIER SERVICE now for the delivery of your
cheque with this information bellow;
Contact Person: Mr. Mark Robbins
Email Address: fedexexpressdeliveryukf@live.co.uk

Again, you are not to pay for the delivering Charge, the Insurance premium
and the Clearance Certificate Fee of the Cheque because I have already paid
for them, the only money you are expected to pay is £255.34 British Pounds
for the security keeping of the cheque 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 and ask them to give you the tracking number to enable you track
your package over there and know when it will get to your address.

Postal address:
Full Names:
Direct telephone number:
Security Keeping Code: (SCT/0433/FF)

Below is the security keeping code: (SCT/0433/FF) of you 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 £255.34
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.

Be also notified that I will no longer be reading my emails or surfing the
internet as I have retired completely from the outside world to my ranch,
at this moment I have nothing to do with cars, emails and other luxuries,
all further correspondence should be forwarded to the courier company for
the delivery of your cheque to you.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Emily Jackman Olivier.




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