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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: "DESMOND RUPERT" <ausl08@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: desmond_esq@myway.com
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:35:53 +0000
Subject: Greetings

Greetings,

I apologies to you for any inconveniences caused if this mail does not Meet
your demands, though I do not intend to embarrass you by the contents of
this very mail. I am Barrister Desmond Rupert. I was the personal Attorney
to Late Engr M.N Sproule who was a citizen of your Country but lived and did
his business here in London with his family and he was the CEO of such
Properties before his sudden death along with his family.

This mail is written to solicit your assistance to present you as next of
kin to my Late Client. Before
his sudden death, he made a fixed Deposit valued at USD22million(Twenty Two
Million United States Dollars Only) with a Security company here in
London.Unfortunately he lost his life aboard Egypt Air
Flight 990, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on October 31, 1999. He
left no clear beneficiary as Next of Kin.

The Bank here in London has searched for the relatives for more than four
years without any success and after 5 years, no claims are made by any of
the deceased next of kin, the money will be sent to unclaimed accounts and
embezzled by the corrupt bank or government officials. It is against this
bank drop that the bank has contacted me as the late depositor's Attorney to
contact and present to them my late Client's next of kin so that the
deposit can be paid to him or her. This is why I have contacted you. Anybody
I present to the bank as the next of kin will be accepted and therefore I
wish to present you since you have the same name with my late Client. Upon
acceptance, I shall give you other details for the successful claim of the
fund. I have secured from the
probate registry, an order of Mandamus to locate any of the deceased
beneficiaries, and more so I am assuring you that this business is 100% risk
free.

If this proposal is acceptable by you, please endeavor to reply
meimmediately, if not please disregard this email.

Thank you very much for your anticipated acceptance while I expect your
prompt response via
desresq@excite.com

Yours faithfully,
Desmond Rupert.

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