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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: Raph Uduego <raphuduego1@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: raphuduego@jmail.co.za
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:32:01 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Barrister Raph Uduego


THE CHAMBERS OF RAPH UDUEGO
ATTORNEYS & SOLICITORS
COTE D'IVOIRE-WEST AFRICA
RAPH UDUEGO CHAMBERS
15 BP 1177 TREICHVILLE,
ABIDJAN-COTE D'IVOIRE,
Email: raphuduego@jmail.co.za

Attn: Please.

With due respect to you,i am sorry for any inconveniences or embarrassment my
letter of assistance may have caused you.
I crave your indulgience for the unsolicited nature of this letter, but it was
borne out of desperation and current development.I know the content of this
letter may come to you as a suprise,please accept the content in good faith. I
do not intend to cause any grief to you and your family. The reason
for sending this mail is very fundamental to the doctrine of human privileges and rights.

My name is Barrister. Raph Uduego a legal practitioner with the RAPH UDUEGO
CHAMBERS based in Cote d Ivoire and the personal Attorney to late Mr. Johnson McDaniel, a national of your country who died along with his wife and a son in a car accident along Airport express way while travelling for Easther holidays in Cote d'Ivoire. My client was a successful and is an accomplished family man, who made enough fortune before his untimely death. Since then I had made several inquiries
through your Embassy to locate any of my clients extended relative but this
exercise has proved unsuccessful. After several unsuccessful attempts, I
decided to trace his relatives through the Internet,to locate any
member of his family, not much progress was recorded.

My late client was an influential wealthy businessman,an oil magnet here in Cote d'Ivoire and he left behind a deposit of Eighteen Million Four hundred Thousand United States Dollars only
($18,4000,000.00usd) in his domiciliary bank accounting a commercial bank here
in Cote d'Ivoire. After the death of my client his bankers contacted me,as his
Attorney to provide his next of kin who should inherit his funds. The board of
Directors of his bank adopted a resolution and I was mandated to provide his next of kin for the payment of this money within 10 working days or forfeit the money to
the bank as an abandoned property. The bankers had planned to invoke the
abandoned property decree of 1996 to confiscate the funds after the expiration
of the period given to me.

Fortunately, in the verge of my search, came across your name through a
constancy firm in your chamber of commerce here in the Africa that
provided me with your reputable data and to my greatest astonishment, I discovered that you are nationals of the same country. Being convinced that you might provide clue to my search, I therefore,decided to contact you with these facts before me, because of the similarities. By virtue of my closeness to the deceased and his immediate family, I am very much aware of my client financial standing and the bank account he operates.

I have reasoned very professionally and I feel it will be legally proper to
present you as the next of kin of my deceased client, so that you can be paid
the funds left in his bank account. I therefore seek your consent to present
you as the Next of Kin to the Deceased since you are at an advantage, equally from the same country, that the proceeds of this
Bank Account valued at $18.4 Million Dollars can be paid to you. We shall both
share the funds. 40% for me and 35% to you, while 20% should be for Expenses or
your Government may require as Tax and 5% should be for the less privilege ones(orphanage).

I shall assemble all the necessary Legal Documents that will be used
to back up our claim. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law. Please get in touch
with me by email to enable us discuss further. For privacy and confidentiality
reply using my email boxes.

Best Regards
Barrister Raph Uduego.



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