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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: "Mr. Alfred Rushford." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <alfredrushford@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 07:50:22 +0100
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL

Good day.

I am Alfred Rushford, the Managing Director Computer programmer and analysts of Telex Computer Department of UK Bank. I want to believe that you can be able to handle this proposal with confidentiality and not betray my trust in you as I make this move to assist you with the issue of your long overdue outstanding payment which has been long approved and recorded in our Bank Transfer data base for final crediting to your local Bank account.

After several times the World Bank and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) had approved your entitlement held with our financial institution to be released to your nominated Bank account following the instruction of the World Bank after the agreement with the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and African Development Bank which was mandated by the AU.

Suddenly after the approval was issued in your favour by the by the above offices, your fund transfer was suspended due to one problem or the other originating from the country of fund origin, all the dramatic activities on your payment has been and was initiated from the country of fund origin by some top managers of the bank in collaboration with top government officials out of what seems to be their selfish purpose. Several approvals has been issued for the release of your fund but to no avail and so far no one has ever stood-out to tell you the truth behind the delay in releasing your fund, instead they all allow you to spend and pay all unnecessary fees without getting anything in return. They will as well tell you that your money has been in one corresponding bank here in the UK or has been wired but there is a mistake in CHANGE OF ACCOUNT or STOP ORDER, all FOR YOU TO SPEND MORE MONEY and get delayed while they keep using your fund in Forex trading. All these tricks h
ave been going on for long now. A

My proposal to you today is that I am ready to assist you to transfer your entitlement funds to your nominated bank account via a special arrangement between the two of us.

HOW ARE WE GOING TO MAKE IT HAPPEN; I will give you a specification of a special KTT wire transfer hard ware DISKETTE, it is a network attached storage hardware kit which is normally used by big Banks for international wire transfers. Once you agree to work with me, I will give you the details of the diskette which you will buy and send to me by DHL courier service. I will use the diskette to program and store your transfer details before releasing credit to your nominated Bank account and after words I will remove the diskette and destroy it as soon as you make confirmation of the funds in your account. It will only take 24 hours for the fund to hit your account because the instrument we are about to use is an online swift transfer latest technology. The use of this instrument will not allow any interruption of the fund to your account from the country of fund origin to the appointed paying Bank.

You will need to give me 100% assurance that you will keep this matter confidential between you and I, this is one of the criteria that will make me feel free to work with you, secondly you will give me 20% of the total sum when funds gets to your account.

Note before we proceed, you must prove to me that I am in contact to the right person by providing to me the below information’s to avoid releasing vital information’s to a wrong person and to avoid diversion of fund.

1) Your Full Name
2) Residential Address
3) ID inform of International Passport or Drivers License
4) Title of payment and amount
5) Direct Telephone Number


If you are interested and ready for us to make it happen, please provide me with the above details via my private email alfredrushford@gmail.com and I will give you more details and also send you the specification for the diskette. The ball is in your court as I am willing and standing by to assist you.

Yours truly,
Mr. Alfred Rushford.

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