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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. Andre Jean" <brayaduke41@gmail.com>
Reply-To: "Dr. Andre Jean" <drandrejean@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 15:51:37 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Dear Friend,


 Dear Friend,

I am Barr.Andre Jean, a legal consultant and High Court
representative based in Benin Republic. I am writing in respect of my
late client who is a national of your country and who used to work as
the Director of Produits petroliers (TOTAL BENIN) in Benin Republic
West Africa.

My Client, His wife and their three Children died in a car accident On
the 26TH of April 2008 in Benin Republic . since then I have made
several inquiries to locate any of my clients extended relatives but
all efforts was just in vain, so I decided to track His last name over
the Internet to locate any member of his Family hence I contacted you.
I have contacted you to assist me claim and transferring the money
left behind by my late Client before they get confiscated or declared
unserviceable by the local bank here.The Bank has issued me a notice
to provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated as
unclaimed bill.

I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased
so that the proceeds of this account valued at US$18.5 million dollars
can be paid to you and then you and I can Share the money 50% to me
and 50% to you.

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 the law, but you
must also agree not to disclose or pass any information related to
this business to any body for security reason and to avoid eye brow.

Contact me urgently with your full contacts at
(drandrejean@yahoo.fr) so that I will give you more details on
how this business deal can be successfully achieved without delay.

I look forward to your urgent response.

Regards,
Barr.Andre Jean .

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