419 scam: "David Aldrich"<ad.aldrichdavid@gmail.com> Re: $10,500,000.00 USDollars

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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:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- ",500,000" (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)
- "here in united kingdom" (this email uses bad English)
This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "David Aldrich" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <scl2016win@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 17:42:05 +0100
Subject: Re: $10,500,000.00 USDollars

Dear Friend,

I sincerely apologize for intruding into your privacy, especially by contacting you through this means for a business transaction of this magnitude, but I had to do it for the security of the information that I want to pass across to you and I want our communication to be basically through email for now.

I am David Aldrich, a banker here in United Kingdom. My client "Kurt Kahle" who died with his family made a fixed deposit of ($10,500,000.00 US Dollars) ten million five hundred thousand dollars in our bank and from investigations; he did not declare any next of kin. So I am soliciting for your valuable assistance as a foreigner to act as the next of kin and get the fund to your bank account because the funds will be revert to the government of UK if nobody comes to claim it.

For more information about the crash you can visit this site: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

I assure you 100% risk free in this transaction as the transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law in your country and here in UK once the fund is transferred to your bank account

Regards,
David Aldrich
Please, kindly reply email back only if interested and I expect you to keep absolutely confidential at all times, to avoid eye brows in the course of transfer.

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