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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 Jackman Olivier" <admin@ikaf.net>
Reply-To: globalalliance7@r7.com
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 15:54:33 -0400
Subject: Dear Beneficiary

Dear Beneficiary,

I am Mother Jane Jackman Olivier, 87 Years old woman and the wife of Late Sir Jackman Olivier (Citizen Of France and Britain) 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 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 gesture 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 personally deposited the sum of $2.4Million with Global Alliance to you,So i have contacted the ATTORNEY in charge of the deposited funds which is in Global Alliance custody. For your information, I have paid for the delivering Charge,Insurance Premium and Clearance Certificate Fee of the funds showing that it is not a Drug Money or meant to sponsor
Terrorist attack in your Country .

You have to contact Global Alliance now for the release of your funds using the information below;

Global Alliance Security And Finance Home
Head Office:171 Park Wanstead road,London IG2 3TT, England
Email: globalalliance7@r7.com

Again, you are not to pay for the delivering Charge, the Insurance premium and the Clearance Certificate Fee of the funds because I have already paid for them, the only money you are expected to pay is $150 for the security/safe keeping of the fund so far.I would have paid the fee but the company insisted that I should not because they do not know when you will be contacting them.

You are to reconfirm the below information to them to avoid any mistake.

Your Full Names:
Your Contact address:
Your Telephone number:

Below is the security keeping code: (GASF/0433/SKC) of your fund, you are to also present it to them for verification to enable immediate release of your fund.

Let me repeat again, try to contact them as soon as you receive this email to avoid any further delay and remember to ask them to provide you with the method they wish to use in receiving their security/safe keeping fee of $150 from you ,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 Global Alliance for the release of the funds to you.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs.Jane Jackman Olivier

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