419 scam: Dide Adrien <officedide5@gmail.com> Michelle van Aardt

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a next of kin scam.
Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- barristerdide@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Dide Adrien <officedide5@gmail.com>
Reply-To: barristerdide@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 08:10:09 +0100
Subject: Michelle van Aardt

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Attention:

My Name is Dide Adrien, a Private lawyer to Late Marko van Aardt, a
national of your country, who used to work as the Director of
petroliers total Benin, on On 31st of July 2010 my client and his
family were involved in a car accident unfortunately lost their lives,
my client had an account valued at about $10.3M (Ten Million Three
Hundred Thousand Dollars) deposited in Bank here in Benin Republic,i
want to present you as the next of kin to my late client so that this
amount will be paid to you as the beneficiary, then you and i will
share it 50% to you and 50% to me. So if you are interested,All
require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this Deal
through and I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. And the
way we are going to achieve this is as follows,

Get back to me with your phone number if you
interested(barristerdide@gmail.com).

Best Regards
Dide Adrien

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