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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: "Andreas Tiedtke" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <andreastiedtke@outlook.com>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 02:38:51 +0200
Subject: Please reply asap

I am glad to find your profile! I am Andreas Tiedtke, a German and former California State Legal Counsel, now a member
of the Washington DC Judiciary, since 2013.

I want to disclose and discuss this promising transaction that I would like to execute with you.

I had a client who was a Mexican American, an oil merchant in both USA and Mexico.
In 2005 he was diagnosed with various ailments after the tragic incidents he experienced towards end of 2004.
However, he was admitted to an acute care facility with esophageal cancer in late 2005, which later took his
life on the 21st day of January, 2006.

In 2004 my client lost his wife to chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, and lost his only child in a car crash in
Florida, hence the deadliest Hurricane Charley incident in same year 2004. You can open the following link to read
about Hurricane Charley (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/english/history.shtml#charley), the young man was studying
medicine in the University of Florida and was in his final year.

My late client confided in me as I was his family legal counsel. In 2003 we both visited a financial institution
in New York City where he saved $21m U.S dollars project fund. They(my client & his wife) had arranged the fund to build
a hospital for their son as a surprise after graduation. However, the young man (my client's son) was the Next of Kin to the
deposited fund! But because he's late too I want to use your information to update the deposit file and make you the successor.
And I shall provide you the deposit documents and other appropriate legal backup document. If we don't claim this fund,
it would either go to the bankers or to the U.S Government.

We shall discuss about investing the fund, probably in your area of business or something lucrative, either in your country or abroad.
But you must keep this correspondence to yourself because of my position in the U.S Government.
Email me back from your private email to my private email (andreastiedtke@outlook.com) for security reasons.

Kindly reply as soon as possible.

Regards,
Andreas Tiedtke.

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