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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Rev. Father Peter Richard" <h22444schika@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: h2233s@myway.com
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 20:11:01 +0400
Subject: from....Rev. Father Peter Richard

Dear Friend,

It took me time and divine intervention to write you this
mail, as we have never had any correspondence before.
My name is Rev. Father Peter Richard.
I'm a catholic priest and I'm very much interested in a
relationship with you for mutual benefits as
I have access to what is needed, but lack the
experience and I'm not in a position to perfect its use.
There is an urgent need for my contacting you as
I recently have been granted an opportunity to have
access to US$8,500,000.00
(Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars Only). Access to this fund is made available
by a woman, who happens to be a serious member
of my parish. She is well known in this community and
aside being a major real estate agent she is a magnet in
environmental management and was a liencened oil
merchant before now. Unfortunately she has been
living and struggling with breast cancer for close to
14 months now. Though she is unmarried, she has a
12 years old daughter and I have been responsible
for her care seen the break of her horrible dilemma.
She has been through a first operation, and though she
is to undergo a final operation within the next few days,
the doctors have not given her much of a chance to live.
She is not aware of this fact and she stills remains
hopefully that something positive can be done in her
case. Based on my last discussion with her yesterday
afternoon on the future of her daughter, should she not
be so lucky. She insisted that the fund should be
invested. Unfortunately I'm definitely not in a position
to run things,which is why I seek your assistance in
taking control of managing the fund.I have resolved
with her on an agreement that will be drawn up by you
on a yearly charge that will be paid to you for taking
control and managing the fund while half of the proceed
will be given for the development of treatment of
cancer patients. The rest will remain with you for the
up keep of her daughter. I wish you could be of
assistance to this course and I'd like to add that
sometimes I receive unsolicited mails, so I hope
my mail doesn't come as an embarrassment to you,
but if it does please kindly accept my apologies.

Awaiting your response,
Sincerely,
Rev. Father Peter Richard.

Parish Priest Holy family Catholic Church.
Please Note: The information contained in this message
may be privileged and confidential, protected from
disclosure, and/or intended only for the use of the
individual or entity named above.If you have received
this communication in error,please notify me
immediately by replying to the message and
deleting it from your computer.
Thank you.


reply to h2233s@myway.com



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