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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: "Mrs Angelina Lucy kieth" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrgreg@mail2uk.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:33:56 +0100
Subject: Contact Mr. Rowan Greg For your parcel

My dear


May the peace of the Lord be unto you, I am Mrs. Angelina Lucy keith, 89 Years
old woman and the wife of Late Sir Keith Abery 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 for more information.
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/index.html

Presently, I have willed out almost half of our assets to several charity homes
and to some of the less privilege in different countries. I and my husband
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 retired to my ranch and exclude myself from the world.

We (I and my husband) have the sum of ?800,000.00 (Eight Hundred Thousand
British Pounds Sterlings)with DHL express UK to deliver to you, what you have to
do now is to contact the DHL COURIER SERVICE in UK as soon as possible to know
when they will deliver your package to you because of the expiring date.

HERE IS THE CONTACT INFORMATION OF THE DISPATCH MANAGER;

Contact Person: Mr.Rowan Greg
Email Address:rowangreg@blumail.org
Phone:+44702 407 1949
Fax: +08702 407 1949

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
NOTE:You are to reconfirm the below information to them to avoid any mistake on
the Delivery

Full Names:
Postal address;
Direct telephone number;
Age:
Occupation:
Gender:

When contacting them, also include this security keeping code number:
(4033/spce/9ty), you are to also present it to them for verification.

Please, try to contact them as soon as you receive this mail to avoid any
further delay.

the only money you are expected to pay is ?150 British Pounds for the security
keeping,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.

I know all this may sound surprising to you, I do not know you, but I want to
trust you will use this fund to help the less privilege and for your own
personal use, please if you know you cannot be able to carry out this
transaction, discard this email.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Keith Angelina Lucy

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