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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: =?UTF-8?Q?=D7=93=D7=95=D7=A8=20=D7=9E=D7=9E=D7=9E?= <dorush_@walla.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 06:54:04 +0200
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?=52=65=70=6C=79=20=6D=65?=





Attention,


How are you doing today and family? I am Andrew Bentley,the former

financial adviser to ousted President of Ukraine, President Victor

Yanukovych who is currently staying in Russia.


Before he left to Russia,he instructed me to move over

US$380,000,000 Million to his private banking system in Moscow, which I

did for him, but after that I moved the sum of US$10,500,000.00

Million for myself somewhere in  a security company in London.


I am am contacting you now, so that you can help me invest the

US$10,500,000.00 which I moved for myself, where I will give you 45%

of the total funds, and 50% for my self and 5% for any expenses that

will come up in the course of completing the transaction including

long distance calls.


Please, get back to me quickly so that I can give you details on how

we will conclude this, but if not interested please delete and do not

inform anyone. contact me on my email for more information ( andrewbentley052@gmail.com ) 


Regards,

Andrew Bentley



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