419 scam: "Mr.DUCE GRAHAM OFFICE"<duce1@amail.az> VERY IMPORTANT

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "million pounds" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "transaction is risk free" (almost true for the criminal trying to scam you - arrests of online criminals are rare)
This email message is a next of kin scam.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +447759120060

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.DUCE GRAHAM OFFICE" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <duce10@rediffmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 04:44:18 +0800
Subject: VERY IMPORTANT

>From Mr. Duce Graham

130 Tonbridge Road

Hildeaborough

Tonbridge

Kent

TN11 9DZ

I am Mr. Duce Graham, a fund manager with Fidelity Investment international Uk and I have served here in Fidelity for 19 years as a fund Manager, I am contacting you in respect of Mr. Walter Wolf a German International Oil marketer, who invested the sum of 150,000,000.00 GBP (One Hundred and Fifty Million Pounds) with Fidelity Investment International London in the year 1994 and unfortunately he died in the year 1997 without informing his relatives about the invested fund.

I have made a lot of efforts in order to locate his relatives for them to come and claim my late client’s invested fund here in London , but unfortunately I was unable to trace his relatives for over 13 years now. From my recent inquiries, I discovered that my client died in the year 1997 after little illness.

As a matter of fact, it is obvious that nobody is going to come for the fund again in this life because he did not reveal about the fund to any of his relatives before his death. Instead of leaving the fund unclaimed here in Fidelity office, I have decided to contact you so that you will stand as the Next of Kin to my late client and I am ready to provide you with any information that will encourage you to work with me in claiming this fund from Fidelity Investment. This transaction is risk free because I made a lot of inquiries before contacting you to stand as the Next of Kin to my late client and I assure you that will never regret your involvement in this transaction.

If you are interested to work with me in claiming this fund from Fidelity Investment, I will give you 40% of the total fund for your participation while I will keep 60% for myself. If you are interested, call me on this telephone number +447759120060 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +447759120060 end_of_the_skype_highlighting for us to talk more about realization of this fund.

You can read more about our company via www.fidelity.co.uk

I am waiting to hear from you soonest.

Regards,

Mr. Duce Graham.

Fund Manager Executive

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