419 scam: "Nigel Rudd"<prausi83@web.de> Business Proposal/Call Me

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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:
- "confidential business" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
- "nigel.rudd002@ymail.com" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
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.
- +447012975252 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "Nigel Rudd" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <nigel.rudd001@ymail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:31:32 +0100
Subject: Business Proposal/Call Me

RE:TRANSFER OF (GBP £36 MILLION)

In order to transfer to overseas (£36,000.000.00 GBP) Thirty Six Million Great British Pounds) from Barclays Bank, London, United Kingdom. I have the courage to ask for your assistance to handle this important and confidential business to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank account immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this funds quietly.

I am Nigel Rudd DL Non-executive Director in Barclays Bank, London, United Kingdom and personal confidant to Dr. Bernhard Jaschke who died in a Auto Crash on the 1st Oct. 2008 on their way to attend a wedding in Manchester. Dr. Bernhard Jaschke is a German physician and industrialist who died in 2008 without having any beneficiary to his assets including his account herein London which he opened in a Barclays Bank, London in the year 2003 as his personal savings for the purpose of expansion and development of his company before his untimely death in 2008. The amount involved is (£36,000.000.00 GBP) Thirty Six Million Great British Pounds and no other person knows about this account. I am contacting you so that this funds can be transferred to your account as the beneficiary. I am only contacting you as a foreigner and a German native because this money cannot be approved to a local person here, but can only be approved to any foreigner who have the correct information about Dr. Bernhard Jaschke which I am

However, I am revealing this to you with belief in God that you will never let me down in this transaction. You are the first and the only person that I am contacting for this project, please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take. Send also your direct telephone number. I need your full co-operation to make this work because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you, upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with my instruction. At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 40% of the total amount while 60% will be for me. I look forward to your earliest reply through my Email or you can call me on my direct phone +44 701 297 5252.

Yours faithfully,
Nigel Rudd DL
Tel:+44 701 297 5252
email:nigel.rudd002@ymail.com

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