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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: "Deborah Wilcox" <info@bernhardsand.net>
Reply-To: nielsra1@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 15:02:03 +0800
Subject: Delivery of Pay Cheque!




Happy Near Year Kindly read carefully,

This may a surprise since we haven't met before and you may ask why I
choose you among the numerous Internet users in the world and I can say
it is the act of God

Permit me to introduce myself,I am Deborah Wilcox, 87 Years old woman and
the wife of Late Sir Wilcox Alex dual citizen of British and America,who
died in a Plane crash on Monday the 7th of September 1998 GMT 15:22 while
they were flying from New York to Geneva.see site below for details.

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/index.html

After his death I became the Head of his investment and now I am old and
weak, I decided to spend the rest of my life in my Ranch before leaving
the world,but before the death of my husband we had a plan to use the last
days of our lives to donate part of what we have worked for to the less
privilege and charity homes and some family members,close friends,
unfortunate my husband is no more today to do this with me and I am very
weak and old, hence I decided to do this philanthropic work on behalf of
my late husband.

Presently, I have willed out our assets to several charity homes and to
some of the less privilege locally and Internationally and we also agreed
to render support to individual we have not meet before in life due to the
fact when my late Husband when he was young in life he received an
anonymous help from an individual he did not know before his death which
made great impact in his life and I want to make the same to you as
planned by my last husband

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

I deposited the sum of £1,000,000.00 (One Million Million British Pounds)
cheque with DHL London two weeks ago to deliver to you as new year gift,
but i was very ill so i could not send you an email until today. what you
need to do is to contact the DHL COURIER SERVICE UK as soon as possible
for urgent delivery.For your information,I have paid 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 ALL THESE HAS BEEN PAID FOR Contact DHL
EXPRESS now for the delivery of your cheque as follows

Contact Person: Niels Robert Andersen
Email Address: dhlmanagement@deliveryman.com and nielsra1@gmail.com
Tel/Fax Fax +44-845-874-0748
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 £935 for the
security keeping/safekeeping of the cheque.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,You are to reconfirm the
below information to them to avoid any mistake on the Delivery.

Postal address:
Full Names:
Direct telephone number:
Age:

Below is the security keeping code: (SCT/09087/UK) for your draft, you are
to forward this code for verification before delivery.You are advised to
contact the delivery agent to avoid delay.also be notify that I will no
longer be reading my emails 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,
Deborah Wilcox

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