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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: "Dr. Mike Dudu" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <drmikedudu0@outlook.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 05:31:13 -0400
Subject: URGENT INFORMATION

>From the Desk of:
Dr. Mike Dudu
Paymaster General of Federation
Office of the Honorable Minister
International Financial Transactions
Foreign Payment Unit
Federal Capital Territory
Garki, Abuja Nigeria
Email: drmikedudu@outlook.com

We write to confirm the information we just heard from a man named Mr. Douglas Ubah and Mr. Patrick Ademola, he came to our office this morning to inform us that you are dead and during your illness you instructed him to claim your of $6.5 Million on your behalf in case you die. So He made things very clear to us that you are dead and he's the only person you disclosed this matter with and you have instructed him to come and claim the money since you are dead.

Therefore, we want to confirm if you are dead or Alive and failure to reply back in the next 24hrs simply means what Mr. Patrick Ademola said was right that you are dead because Mr. Patrick Ademola has ordered us to release the ATM Card that contains your of $6.5 Million to Dr. David Moore from United States and he has agreed to pay the needed fund valued at $850 US Dollars required for the postage fee of the ATM Card, but we have not gotten the money from him yet as we want to find out if you are dead or not, so if you are still alive you are advice in your own best interest to reply back and so we can stop further communication with Dr. David Moore.

Note: that for we to know that you are alive and any mail we receive is from you, you are to reconfirm the following: - your name, phone & fax number, House Address Occupation and your Age. Beside if you fail to comply with the needed $850 US Dollars required there's no way we can post the ATM Card to you but you can come to Nigeria by yourself to pick up your ATM Card and attached is the Photograph of those men who came to my office to claim your fund .

Looking forward to hearing from you, if this information is not truth do get back to me urgently on the above email.

Yours Sincerely,

Dr. Mike Dudu
Paymaster General of Federation

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