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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 Alex <customercare.balestier@aqueenhotels.com>
Reply-To: Deborah Wilcox Alex <nielsra1@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 23:37:17 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: Delivery of Pay Cheque!





Happy Near Year Kindly read carefully,

This may surprise since we haven't meant 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 last December 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: nielsrandersen@rediffmail.com OR 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 £535 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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