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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: "Juliet Brighton" <test@eschelon.com>
Reply-To: juliet.brighton@ymail.com
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 19:51:59 +0100
Subject: From Juliet...

Greetings,


My name is Mrs. Juliet Brighton. I am terminally ill and have decided to
donate my inheritance from my husband to you. No doubt, you may wonder how
I got to know you and your email/names and what informed my decision to
will my fortune to you, when I have lots of people I know better to whom
I
should have willed my fortune here. Dear, you have no cause to worry about
these questions, for I mean no harm.

Regarding how I got your personal details, it is via the internet with the
help of the nurse assigned to attend to me in my private ward here in the
hospital. Because I cannot surf on my own due to partial stroke, it is the
nurse who surfs for me under my direction. On deciding to donate my
fortune to an individual, I instructed her to search from the net 15
individual profiles at random and to conduct randomized sampling on the
profiles and whosoever the profile is chosen shall donate my inheritance
to, hence your profile was chosen. Therefore, I am donating my fortune to
you partly because of your selection random sampling experiment and
because my husband and I never had any child, despite all our attempts at
child-bearing.

Again, it may interest you to know that I am 59 years old and have been
diagnosed of acute cancer for about 2 years now, shortly after the death
of my husband, which made me hypertensive and resulted in stroke. In my
present condition, life is without meaning to me and hope has since eluded
me. Each day I give my entire existence a thought, I feel over-powered by
gloom and despair and saw nothing but death lurking around. All these are
my reasons for deciding on using anything in my name for charity in which
co-incidentally you have been favoured as the beneficiary. I must tell you
that I was truly touched by my inner mind to take this decision/action I
decided not to donate my inheritance to the people I know around me but
instead a stranger, because if I did, upon my death, my husbands relatives
will engage the beneficiary in litigation (court case), claiming the
donation is without their consultation and consent and to that extent my
decision/action is null and void, and they may use their connections and
influence to reclaim or recover it, a thing I hate to imagine! My
husband's relatives are such that it will amount to betrayal of my late
husband if I let them have his hard-laboured fortune and enjoy it, despite
how they mistreated my late husband under my very nose. I will not let
them reap where they did not sow. This is again, part of the reasons for
my decision/action.

I will expect that you will as am about doing to you this day do to the
lives of others, for life is better lead on the philosophy of give and
take.
I will advise that you don't see your windfall as avenue for pleasure
spree but should see it as an opportunity to build and grow your personal
finances to an enviable level, for both your benefit and the benefit of
others.

Always put me in your prayers for forgiveness of my sins and trespasses.
I shall be undergoing major operations in less than a month from now and
have willed/donated 40% of the funds to you for personal use and 60% for
the purpose of helping the needy and less-privileged around you.

Pls, note that, because I do not want my husbands relatives, who have
spies all around me, to know of the latest developments, coupled with my
worsening health condition, I shall not entertain phone calls and
conversations. If you are sure that you will use the donated fund as I
have advised here, contact my Lawyer to help you arrange the transfer of
the fund to your account. You may reach my Lawyer via the details below:

Name: Richard Carlton
Email: barr_richard.carlton@ymail.com


When contacting my Lawyer, it is necessary to furnish him with the details
below so that all the paperwork in your name can be processed, to
facilitate the arrangement of the transfer

Full Names:
Address:
Telephone number:
Age:
Occupation:

You should give Lawyer your cooperation so that he can assists you fully
in the processing and remittance of your donation/bequest. All the best!

Juliet Brighton


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