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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: "susan williams" <sus_williams20@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: bayofredrick201@o2.pl
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:41:52 +0000
Subject: please i need your urgent reply

From: susan williams
Subject: please i need your urgent reply
Sent: sartoday, December 31, 2005 10:18 AM

Greetings Dear Friend,

Compliments of the year, how are you and the family,hope they are all
well,well as for mine we are very much fine, My name is susan williams,
I live here in London, I work with Reliance Security and Storage Deposit
Firm London South England, I am 38 years old.

I write this letter with great pleasure, I discovered a British Oil
consultant/contractor with the Kuwait solid Minerals Corporation. MADAM
JENIFER WOODS, who Made a deposit valued at TEN Million Dollars.

According to the company's record,she has not come to pick up her
deposit after 3 years, she was sent a routine notification to her forwarded
address but got no reply after a month,they sent a reminder and finally they
discovered from her contract employers, the Kuwait solid minerals
corporations, that MADAM JENIFER, died a year ago,when I went on
further investigation I found out that she died with out declaring a Next of
Kin even in her deposit documents, and all attempts to trace her Kin's was
fruitless.

All staff of The Seucrity firm does not know the content of the deposit
is money, i was conduct a search on unclaimed consignment in our custody
and discovered it contained cash deposit, which no one but myself know
about, if no one applies to claim the fund, it would be confiscated by Board
of
Director of the Security and Storage Deposit Firm,and opened in the
present of government officials and once all this is done it would be
transfered to the goverment coffer.

Consequently my proposal is that you stand as a foreigner and make
claims as the next of kin to MADAM JENIFER so that the fruits of this old
woman's
labour will not get into the hands of some bad top officials here, This
is simple, I will first of all get you an attorney to draft the
notarization of the will and help you obtain the necessary documents to back
up your
claims in your favor as the true beneficiary.

please observe utmost confidentiality, and be rest assured this is 100%
risk free.

This transaction falls on my table so no body is going to question it,
until i am unable to provide a next of kin, so you dont have anything to
worry about.

I want you to know that my main purpose of doing this,is because i
believe in doing good, so i suggest that you keep 30% for yourself,while 30%
come to me and 35% goes to charity, the remaining 5% will be for our
expenditure.

And also your area of specialization is not a hindrance to the
successful execution, I have reposed my confidence in you and hope that you
will
not disappoint me, Kindly Notify me by email for further details upon your
acceptance of this proposal.

RESPOND THROUGH MY Alternative and personal email address:
susanwilliamsoo@yahoo.com

susan williams
Reliance Security & Storage
Deposit Firm London South England


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