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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. Angelina Keith" <lucy99@switched.com>
Reply-To: georgegreg@deliveryman.com
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:05:20 -0400
Subject: Inheritance (Contact DHL)


I am Mother Angelina Lucy Keith, 87 Years old woman and the wife of Late Sir
Abery Keith 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 in my
Ranch before i
finally leave the world, 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.

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,
hence I need you to do me a favor by accepting our offer.

I deposited some fund in the sum of 1,800,000.00 (One Million Eight Hundred
Thousand British Pounds) with DHL UK four weeks ago to deliver to you,
but i was
very ill so i could not send you an email until today. what you have to do now
is to contact the DHL COURIER SERVICE UK as soon as possible to know
when they
will deliver your package to you.

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 DHL COURIER SERVICE now for the delivery of
your cheque
with this information bellow:

Contact Person: Mr. George Greg
Email: dhlexpress.george01@gmail.com
Tel: +44 704 572 0486

Again, the only money you are expected to pay is 160 GBP (One Hundred
and Sixty
British Pounds) for the security keeping of the cheque so far. 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 them.

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.

1. Postal address
2. Full Names
3. Direct telephone number

Below is the security keeping code: (SCT/0433/F) of you draft, you are to also
present it to them for verification before delivery.

Please, try to contact them as soon as you receive this mail to avoid any
further delay.

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. Angelina Keith

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