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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: "susanwilliamsoo@terra.es" <susanwilliamsoo@terra.es>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:16:57 +0100 (MET)
Subject: From Susan Williams



Greetings Dear Friend,

Compliments of the season, 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% riskfree.

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 55% come to me and 10% 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.


susan williams
Reliance Security & Storage
Deposit Firm London South England










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