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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 about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "peter roberts" <peter_roberts08_agency@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:16:08 +0200
Subject: URGENT PLEASE.

Dear Jafar,
I am Mr. Peter Roberts, a branch manager with Ned Bank South Africa. I got
your contact address from your country's journal, and I decided to solicit
for your partnership in this transaction. You are the only person that I
have contacted regarding this transaction with the believe that you will
assist me accomplish this business. After going through some old files in
the records department, I discovered that there is an account opened in my
branch since 1988 and up till this moment, nobody has operated on this
account. The owner of this account is late Mr. Abdulla Al-kirby, a Bahrain
national and a miner at the Anglo Gold Platinum Mining Company in Mafikeng,
a geologist by profession, who died in a ghastly motor accident, a year
after he made a deposit in my branch, since then till now, the account had
been dormant, and the laws of south Africa demands that a dormant account
should be closed after a number of years and the amount in the said account
should be confiscated into government purse. By the look of things, this
particular account had already fallen into this category. The account has no
other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that his company
did not know anything about this account and the amount involved is US$12.3
Million Dollars(Twelve Million, Three Hundred Thousand United State
Dollars). I had arranged with other officials in my branch to transfer this
money out of the country into a safe foreign account abroad. I have not
forgotten a trusted foreigner. I am only contacting you as a foreigner
because this money cannot be approved to a local bank here, but can be
approved to any foreign account because the money is in US Dollars and the
former owner of the account Mr. Abdullar Al-kirby was a foreigner. I need
your full co-operation to make this work smoothly because the management is
ready to approve this payment to whoever that has correct information to
this account and proof of next kin, which I will, tell you as the
transaction progress. If you are able to handle such amount in stack
confidence and trust according to my instruction and advice for our mutual
benefits. It will be very much appreciated because opportunity of this
nature comes once in a lifetime. I can always give you information regarding
to this account as may be demanded by the bank. All I need is the assurance
that this fund be intact pending my arrival in your country for sharing. I
will destroy all the documents as soon as we finish this transaction,
leaving no trace of any kind. I have the tendency to invest my own share of
the money in your country expectation to sound management and good capital
returns according to your advice. Be assured that you stand no risk of any
kind as the fund belongs to us now. Therefore after the eventual stage of
the transfer of this fund, I am offering you 20% of the total fund, 80% will
be for my partners and me. However you remain trusted until this money
finally gets to your account in your country. I strongly believe that
associating with you to embark on this fund, other business venture will
derive a huge success there after. I will use my position to influence to
effect approvals for onward transfer of this money to your account with
appropriate clearance forms from the ministries and foreign exchange
department. I am counting on your sense of confidentiality, as it is my
desire that you keep this to your self. Looking forward to your urgent
responds. You can contact me using these numbers Tel: 27 72 462 6252. direct
e-mail: peterroberts01@yahoo.co.uk

Best regards,
MR. Peter Roberts

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