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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 Donald Duke <andduke0001@rediffmail.com>
Reply-To: andrewdomaldduke@consultant.com
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 13:15:50 +0200
Subject: Urgent response needed''''''''''''''

From: Andrew Donald Duke
Dear friend,

It's my urgent need for a partner that made me to contact you for this
transaction. I work with the Bond Financial Service Group,
Johannesburg, South Africa, I am an attorney and currently working
with a team of auditors that are in charge of debt recovery in the
above mentioned organization.

I have the opportunity to transfer an unclaimed fund that amount to
Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars belonging to
one of my client who died in an automobile accident in 2007 having no
one coming up to claim his funds and if left unclaimed will be
transferred to the government treasury.

Hence, I am inviting you for a business deal where this fund can be
shared between us in the ratio of 40% for you, 50% for me and my
colleague, while 10% will be for any expenses incurred during the
transfer, If you agree to my business proposal.

Further details of the transfer will be forwarded to you as soon as i
receive your mail. Have a nice day.

Yours,
Andrew Donald Duke.

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