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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. Judith Alex Wilcox" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <barrfredmilton@aol.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 18:29:35 +0100
Subject: GREETINGS!

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 and 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 Judith Alex Wilcox, 87 Years old woman and the wife of Late Sir Alex Wilcox who died in a Plane crash on Monday the 2nd of September 1998 GMT 4:22 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 had worked for to the less privilege/charity homes and the other half for ourselves, family members and close friends. Unfortunately, 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/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 unknown individual we have not met before due to the fact that 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 gave us the impression to pay it forward by doing same to an unknown person.

I am sorry to inform you that you will never have the chance to know me nor will I respond to your next email 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 Unknown beneficiary of our last WILL irrespective of your previous financial status. Hence, I want you to accept our offer that will cost you nothing.

I have the sum of $250,000.00 US Dollars in an account with Halifax Bank. I told my account officer that I have willed the sum in the account to you and as such it should be transferred to your account which you will provide them. My account officer said you have to send them the Change of Ownership document before the fund can be transferred to your account. Because it is this document that will prove the sum is now yours. I have contacted my Lawyer to obtain this Change of Ownership document which he said cost $135. Like I said before, this offer will not cost you anything except the cost ($135) for the Change of Ownership document. I would have paid for the cost of this document but I have willed all the money I have left to you. Therefore I want you to contact my Lawyer on both emails with details below:


Barrister Fred Milton
ELITES CHAMBERS & SOLICITORS
4 ROYAL MINT COURT,
LONDON EC3N 4HJ , UK.
Tel: +44-702-407-1750
Fax: +44-844-774-1024
E-mail: barrfredmilton@aol.co.uk
barrfredmilton@lawyer.com





My Lawyer is like a son to me and he will obtain the Change of Ownership document for you. So contact him on both email addresses and send him the below information to prepare the Change of Ownership document:

YOUR FULL NAME,
YOUR CONTACT ADDRESS
YOUR DIRECT TELEPHONE
YOUR FAX NUMBER

Ask him the method he wishes to receive the cost ($135) for the Change of Ownership document from you. Please do not thank me nor 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 world would be a better community if we render selfless services to one another.

Also, be 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 all further correspondence should be forwarded to my Lawyer.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Judith Alex Wilcox



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