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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 Jane Milner" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dhl_house@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:31:58 +0100
Subject: Dear Beneficiary

Dear Beneficiary,

I am Mother Jane milne Robert, 87 Years old woman and the wife of Late Sir Milne

Robert 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

or met again till date, the impact we got from such gestsure made us want 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 $3.5million with DHL express

to deliver to you when i visited west Africa to conclude some unfinished

transaction and investment on behalf of my late husband,So i have contacted the

ATTORNEY in charge of the deposited cheque which i left there so that he can go

to the DHL delivery company there to know when they will deliver the cheque

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 DHL

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

bellow;

dhl address: DHL International Nigeria Ltd DHL House Isolo Expressway

Lagos.


Email: dhl_house@yahoo.com


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 $120 for the security keeping &

intuity fee 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.

Your Postal / delivery address;
Your Full Names:
Direct telephone number;

Below is the security keeping code: (FED/0433/SKC) of your 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 $120 for from you

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. Jane Milne Robert

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