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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: MR ROGER KUDU <mrrogerkudu@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:20:53 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: very urgent


ATTN: CHAIRMAN/C.E O,
(PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL)

I am Mr Rogers Kudu a staff of INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK (I C B) In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of (US$24.3M) Twenty Four Million, Three hundred thousand United States Dollars only, in an account that belongs to Our Customer who died along with his family in 26th December 2003 in a plane crash during their christmas holiday. Click bellow to view the plane crash chaotic scene.

http://english.pravda.ru/accidents/21/97/384/11653_Aircrash.html

Since we got information about his death,the bank has been expecting his next of kin to come over for the claims because we cannot release it unless somebody applies as a next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines Unfortunately we discover that he did not mention any beneficiary to his account before his sudden death.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided to contact you, and you having the same last name with him, it makes it easier for the money to be released to you as the next of kin or relation to the decease since nobody is fronting for the money and i do not want this funds to
go into disbursement account as unclaimed bill.

The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after four(4) years the money will be transferred into the government account as unclaimed fund.We shall negotiate on the percentage split of the funds as we proceed.

Therefore to enable immediate release of the inheritance to you as arranged, you should contact me immediately via email for further directives on how to go about actualizing the claim in your name. email me at; rogersdudley@yahoo.co.uk

anticipating your urgent response.

Yours faithfully,

Mr Rogers Kudu.

N/B: I know that this email will come to you as a surprise, considering the fact that it is unsolicited. I quite understand your concern over this matter considering the happenings all over the world, I want to assure you that this is a 100% legitimate and risk free transaction.




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