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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: Allen Andrew <geral@davion.pt>
Reply-To: <a.andrewllen@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 10:23:05 -0300
Subject: RE: (CONFIDENTIAL).

London, United Kingdom.
07/08/2014.

Hello

This is a personal email directed to you and I request that it should be treated as such. I am Allen Andrew, a lawyer and solicitor at law. I am
the personal attorney/sole executor to the late Mr. George, hereinafter referred to as 'my client' who worked as an independent oil merchant here
in UK before he died in a car crash with his immediate family on the 28th of July, 2004.

I carried out this search on you and I am contacting you because you bear a similar last name with that of my late client and the further reasons
are as follows:

Since the death of my client in July, 2004, I have written several letters to his embassy with an intent to locate any of his extended relatives whom
shall be claimants/beneficiaries of his abandoned personal estate and all such efforts have been to no avail.

However, going by the recent publications by the Trustee bank in which my client deposited the sum of Ј8.7m (GBP), I fear a likely winding up
proceedings in the coming months. I seek your consent therefore, to present you to the trustees as my client's next of kin since you bear a
similar last name with him so that you can help repatriate the money to a foreign account and I promise a fair share between us at the end of the
transfer.

Respond urgently to my official email address {a.andrewllen@aol.com} if you are very interested so I can appraise you with further details. I
assure you that I have all the requirements to execute this claim legitimately.

Please let me have your opinion as soon as possible and send to me your telephone and fax numbers to enable us discuss further on this
transaction.


Best regards,

Allen Andrew (Esq).
  
Geral Davion


Phone: 
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