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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: "andrew lugard" <mr_andrewlugard15@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: auditor2020d@yahoo.de
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 15:04:24 +0200
Subject: From:Mr. Andrew Lugard (Urgent Reply)

From:Mr. Andrew Lugard .
Address:8 Mitchley Road Tottenham London N17
9HG
Occupations: External Auditor

Hello,

Do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your personal ethics
although, I wish to use this medium to get in touch with you,I am Mr. Andrew
Lugard I am an extenal auditor of a well known bank here in the United
Kingdom.

In one of our peroidic auditing I discorved a dormant accounts with holding
balance of15,000,000(Fifteen Million British Pounds) which has not been
operated for the past three years. From my investigations and confirmations,
the owner of this account, a foreigner by name Late Mr.
Morris Thompson an American who unfortunately lost his life in the plane
crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000,
including his wife and only daughter. You shall read more about the crash on
visiting this site indicated below for more clarifications.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/.

I have secretly discussed this matter with a top senior minister official of
the federal ministry of finance here and we have agreed to find a reliable
foreign partner to deal with us although due
to his possition he did not want to take active part but as soon as you
follow my instructions everything will be successfull because we will be
woking hand in hand with him.

We thus propose to do business with you, standing in as the next of kin of
these funds from the deceased and after due legel processes have been
followed the fund will be released to your account without deley and we will
use it for investment and to assist the less privelaged in the society
because if we left the fund with the government it will be fortified for
nothing and will be used to suppress the poor masses in the society.

This transaction is totally free of risk and troubles as the fund is
legitimate and does not originate from drug, money laundry, terrorism or any
other illegal act.

Finally, I will give you 35% for your coporation, 5% will be for expenses
both parties might have incurred during this process. On receipt of your
response I will furnish you
with detailed clarification as it relates to this mutual benefit
transaction. I look forward to hearing from you as soon as possible if you
are interested.
Regards,
Mr. Andrew Lugard .

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