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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: "JIM HILLARY" <uk.debtmanagement@outlook.com>
Reply-To: revjonesbrown@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2018 21:11:42 -0000
Subject: FINAL NOTIFICATION





Attn:
The Beneficiary,
Estate of Engr. Terry Williams.

FINAL NOTIFICATION

Please confirm your receipt of this mail because previous correspondence
have been sent to you but we did not get any response from you. Bear in
mind that no execution will be carried out without the endorsement of
Jones Brown (the overseer of the church where he worshiped before
his death here in London) and me the attorney for the execution.

On-behalf of the Trustees and Executors of the Will of late of Engr. Terry
Williams (ksm), I wish to notify you that you were listed as a beneficiary
to the bequest of the sum of US$3.5M [Three Million Five Hundred Thousand
US Dollars] in the codicil and last testament of the deceased. The late
Terry Williams until his death was a former Managing Director and pioneer
staff of a big construction company in China and later invested in poultry
farm and
rice. He established himself as a wealthy farmer in Asia where he exported
rice and other poultry produce.

He was a very dedicated man and a great philantropist during his life
time. He involved himself in helping people by giving investable loans in
agriculture and health care ventures. Late Terry Williams died on 9th
December 2016 at the age of 78. He has since been buried on the 23rd of
January 2017. He was an American, lived in Asia all through his active
years but later moved down to London due to long term illness where he
died in a specialist hospital. He was married but without a child and lost
his wife in 2006 due to breast cancer.

He said in his words as stated in his last testament that "it is my
desired wish to see that the poor and less privileged are given assistance
by any means and limit this token could go, especially in Asia, Africa and
America having seen it all myself". He therefore advised that this amount
be "invested and 40% of the proceeds be used for charity annually, while
60% be retained by the beneficiary for his efforts".


I hereby request that you forward your current telephone for further
discussion and your correct forwarding address to enable us file necessary
documents of claims at probate registry for the release of this funds to
you. Please note that this is for real as probate expenses has been
provided
for.

Please inform me if you did receive this notification this time or Jim
Hillary e-mail revjonesbrown@gmail.com.

Yours faithfully,
Jim Hillary
Estate of Terry Williams

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