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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs.Sarah Powell Olivier" <smile-care@mse.biglobe.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "Mrs.Sarah Powell Olivier" <mrssarah.powell@aol.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 03:00:33 +0900 (JST)
Subject: THIS IS MY BEQUEST NOTICE TO YOU THIS DAY; 10/02/2018

Dearest Beloved,


This is a Bequest notice.

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 saw your profile
on the Internet, which has made me accomplish my request.
May the almighty God bless and see you through with this
mission if you can carefully read and digest the message
below.

Before I move further, permit me to give you a little of my
biography, I am Mother Sarah Powell Olivier, 67 Years old
woman and the wife of Late Sir Jackman Olivier a dual
citizen of France and Britain who died alongside our only
child 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

After the death of my husband and son ,I became the Head of
his investment and just recently, the doctors handling my
health issues at Cancer center: Christie Hospital NHS Trust
UK, have said I may not
live beyond the next two months after my next surgery,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 with cancer and coupled with the recent announcement
from the doctor, 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 met before in life due to the fact
when we were still young in life we received an anonymous
help from an individual we did
not know and which we have not been 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.

I have presently instructed my attorney to assist any person
I will introduce to him as the beneficiary to the last will
in the sum of Ten Million United State Dollars
(10,500,000.00) with my bank. I decided to do this now and
unconditionally knowing that my days are numbered.

To conclude with this bequest, please provide me with your
Data to fully advise my attorney that you are the appointed
beneficiary of the deposit.


Full Names:
Physical address;
Direct telephone number
Occupation

Note: Please I do not want you to thank me, same gesture was
shown to us, all I need you to do is, When you get this
fund, use %50 for your self and the rest to assist the less
privileged in your community,
this is the only way to immortalize us when I am gone.

Yours Faithfully
Mrs.Sarah Powell Olivier
Cancer Centre: Christie Hospital NHS Trust
(Manchester, UK) North West of England
mrssarah.powell@aol.co.uk

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