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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: "JEFFREY RODWELL" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jeffreyrodwell@24.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 09:58:17 -0700
Subject: RE: ANSWER NOW

London U.K.
Duane Morris
10 Chiswell Street, 2nd Floor
London, UK EC1Y 4UQ
Phone: +44 70 35 92 02 32
Fax: +44 70 35 92 02 32
E-mail:  jeffreyrodwell@24.com
Hello Dear.
RE: My name is Jeffrey Rodwell, London U.K-based Brokerage Consultant in partnership with Edward Wills & Duane Morris Firms. Its my good intention to solicit your assistance to reach out a deal transfer of £960,000.000.00{Nine Hundred & Sixety Million British Pounds Sterling} to any safe account you will provided.
This Fund is genuine managed from Foreign Exchange Traded Funds. I am confident that this transfer will be handled UNDER secured Bank Transfer with help of a Senior Banker who have agreed to help us and make a Legal Transfer to your account, IF I FOUND YOU TO BE SERIOUS & CAPABLE PERSON:
 
I want you to know that due to large figure involve and urgency required to complete the Transaction within 2weeks I have only given 5days to provide detailed information of a Capable Partner that is able to receive the said deposit and keep to agreement that he/she will not betray nor undermine the confidentiality of the transaction either now or in future.
 
Its important to inform you that this transaction is completely out of my Public/office activities so I am using above address to contact you only for you to know that my intention is genuine and you should maintain private communication with me only both by email & telephone at all time. Contact me through my private email address AT:jeffreyrodwell.snr@hotmail.com
Transfer Operation will start upon receipt of your formal acknowledgement; including following information:
Full names:
Current residential address:
Private phone numbers:
Private email address:
Full Banking Coordinates.  (2 Different Bank Accounts).
 
After successful transfer to your account, we will share 90% of this Fund 50/50 while 5% will go for helping Bank Officers and remaining 5% will be donated to support Charity Foundations.
I look forward hearing from you.
Regards.
Jeffrey Rodwell.

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