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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: "Mr. Oliver Walter" <online2114110@telkomsa.net>
Reply-To: dpd-expressdelivery@outlook.com
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 11:24:35 +0200 (SAST)
Subject: Dear,

Dear,

Good day to you and your family today.

I am sure this mail would be coming to you as a surprise since we have never met
before and you would also be asking why I have decided to chose you amongst the
numerous internet users in the world, precisely I cannot say why I have chosen you
but do not be worried for I come in peace and something very positive is about to
happen to your life right now and to the lives of others through you if only you
can carefully read and digest the message below. The internet has made the world
global villages where you can reach anybody you have not met before.

Before I move further, permit me to give you a little of my biography, I am
Mother Ann Hopcraft Lawrence, 87 Years old woman and the wife of Late Sir Hopcraft
Lawrence 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 formore
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 till date, the impact we got from such gesture
made us 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 5,800,000.00 British Pound with
DPD Express to deliver to you, what you have to do now is to contact My Attorney
as soon as possible so that he can go the delivery company to know when they will
deliver your 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 DPD EXPRESS PARCEL DELIVERY now for the delivery of your

cheque with this information below;

Contact Person: Mr. Oliver Walter
Email: dpd-expressdelivery@outlook.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 160 Great British Pounds for the security
keeping 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.

Postal address;
Full Names:
Direct telephone number;

Below is the security keeping code: (DPD/0367/CKS) 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 160 Great British
Pounds 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 the courier company for the delivery of your
cheque to you.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Ann Hopcraft Lawrence

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