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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 Walter"<HR@jandoplastics.com>
Reply-To: 4ndr3wal@gmail.com
Date: 28 Apr 2017 16:37:17 -0400
Subject: April 2017 Confidential Letter

How is your family doing? I hope all is well with you and your
family. My proposal is very important to me so please I want you
to take the content of this mail very serious. All I want is an
honest business transaction between us. First of all, I will
start by introducing myself. My name is Andrew Walter, I am
currently working with Rand Merchant Bank South Africa. I have
been working here for 17 years now, and I have a good working
record with my bank.


I am also the personal accountant to Engineer (Lex Hydorn), a
foreign contractor who has an investment account with my bank
with a huge sum of money in it. My late client was a chemical
consultant contractor with Royal Dutch Shell until his death in a
fatal car accident while at France on sabbatical with his entire
family. The accident unfortunately took the lives of the family
members comprising of himself, his wife and two kids in the
summer of 2007 may their soul rest in perfect peace. He banked
with us here at Rand Merchant Bank South Africa and had a very
huge sum of money in his account which has still yet not been
claimed by anybody as there was no living will in place when he
died. The amount of money involved here is about $15,812,664
(Fifteen Million, Eight Hundred and Twelve Thousand six hundred
and sixty four US Dollars) in account with indefinite interest.
Since the death of my client; my bank and I have made several
inquiries to his embassy to locate any of his extended family
members or relatives but this has proven unsuccessful.


I employed the services of LinkedIn search solely for this
purpose as I feel it would not have been the last wishes of my
late client for his whole life work to be transferred to a
government (Es cheat) he had always complained of their
unfavorable public monetary policies, taxes and so on while he
was alive. My bank has issued me several notices to provide the
next of kin or the account risk been es cheat within the next 10
official working days. The last notice for claim came to my desk
last week. I am contacting you to assist me in repatriating the
funds left behind before they are declared un-serviced by my
bank. I am seeking your consent to present you as the next of kin
of my late client since you share and bear the same last name. As
such, the proceeds of the account can be paid to you as soon as
you contact my bank and apply for the funds to be released to you
as the next of kin. If we can be of one accord, I see no reason
why we would not succeed. We both have to act swiftly on this
matter in other


I propose that upon successful completion of this deal, we will
split the proceeds 50:50 ratio. I am after the success of this
transaction with your full co-operation. All I require is your
honesty and full co-operation to enable us see this cool deal go
through. I guarantee you that this will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you and me from
breaching South Africa laws. I want to also inform you that I am
a very religious person and I cannot tell a lie because of my
strong believes; I would expect the same from you. I will attach
a copy of my international passport in my next mail for
authenticity so we have equal ground to trust each other. If you
are interested in my proposal I will send you more information
directing you on further procedure on how we can claim the money
in the account successfully. If this proposal is alright by you
then kindly get back to me. The content of this mail should be
treated with utmost confidentiality and a quick response from you
will be highly appreciated.


Thanks you for your time and do have a great day.


Regards,
Dr. Andrew Walter

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