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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: <chukspeters@virgilio.it>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 05:38:44 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
Subject: your urgent reply

Dear Friend,

How are you today? sorry for little delay reaching now
this is because I
travelled out thank God am back now. infurtherance
to our
transaction, I have been making different arrangement. I spoke
with The
Finance and security company today and they are ready to help
me and
bring consignment containing total money $20m to you in Europe.
Will
this be OK by you?.

I came to know of you in my pravite reseach
we decided to do
business with you,I am CHUKS PETERS ,a personal
consultant to late col.
JAMES OKORO,who was one of the victims in 27th
Jaunary 2002, Bomb blast
explosion.

When col. JAMES OKORO was alive
he deposited US$20Million
Dollars with the security vault oversea for
foreign investment and for
the betterment of his family,but
unfortunetely he died in the Bomb
explosions, all plans he made was to
no avoil.

However,am contactin
on behalf of his wife Hannah Okoro
who wants your help to claim this
fund and help to invest, not that I
know you face to face but I believe
that you are the kind of gentle
person who will respect our sharing
percentage and give it to her. If
you agree she is willing to give you
40% for your assistant. All I
require is your honest co-operation and
Sincerity to enable us see
this business project go through.

Please
if you are ready to help her
contact me through my personal email:
chukspeters@o2.pl

Waiting for
your response.

Best regards,
Chuks Peters

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