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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: "peter donald" <peter_donald002@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:28:40 +0000
Subject: URGENT REPLY NEEDED AND IT`S CONFIDENTAIL: REPLY TO MY PRIVATE EMAIL

Good Day Sir/Mar.

I am Mr. Peter L.Donald the personal accountant to the late first lady Mrs.
Stella Obasanjo (THE WIFE TO THE PRESEIDENT OF NIGERIA) she died in SPAIN on
Sunday morning been 23RD OF OCTOBER 2005 when she went for a MEDICAL
SURGERY, though she was buried on the 28th been Friday 2005, and we really
need to make every thing done before the government start looking into any
thing she has.

Please these is a very urgent email, so please read it very well and
understand it before you reply back to me, this is the hull story about this
transfer, the late first lady of NIGERIA, Mrs. Stella Obasanjo, have a
private account with GLOBAL SECURITY COMPANY LONDON, and she kept it secret
from the husband the PRESIDENT, because she wanted to use it in a
transaction out side the country, her private attorney and i her private
accountant are the only people who knows about the fund that was deposited
in GLOBAL SECURITY COMPANY LONDON. The fund was deposited in a different
name not on her name, and why she did it like that was because of the (EFCC)
economic and financial crime commission, not to suspect her movement.

To let you know she was suppose to transfer the fund into her private
account in Spain before she died, though I was in charge of making sure that
the fund should be transferred before Friday been the 21st October 2005,
before she went for the surgery which took her away from the this earth to
another world, so that is the problem now, if we should keep this fund for
more time in the country the (EFCC) economic and financial crime
commission, will know about it, that is the problem now.

NOW, all I want you to do now is to stand as the right owner to the said
fund that is under the care of GLOBAL SECURITY COMPANY LONDON. Then you will
contact the bank as the owner, which the security bank manager will then
tell you to contact them back with all the necessary documents that you
use to deposit the fund in their custody (SECURITY COMPANY). Then her
private lawyer will prepare the documents for you with your name as the
right owner of the deposited fund that is under their care for save purpose.

so as for the name and account number that she use to open the account and
deposited the fund in the security bank, if you are interested in
transacting this transaction with us, I will send them to you; and the
amount of the said fund that is in the security company is $10,000,000,00
(ten million united state dollars). so as for the percentages that will
guide this transaction i and the private lawyer have said that we will
give you 30% of the fund, then 60% will be for both of us, then 10% for
any expenses that may occur in this transaction both international and
local.

and please to let you know all we need from you is for you to stand as the
owner of the fund, we will take care of the documents by our self you are
not paying any money for the preparation of the documents please note of
that, so if you are interested to transact with us we will need these
information for prepare clarification about your self,

1. Name:
2. Address:
3. Marital Status:
4. Occupation:
5. Age:
6. Sex:
7. Nationality:
8. Country of Residence:
9. Telephone Number:
10. Fax Number:

so once we have all these, her personal attorney will prepare the documents
with your name and your contact address, and send it to you, after that we
will you the contact of the security company (GLOBAL SECURITY COMPANY
LONDON) Manager who will ask for the documents and then tell you what to do
before he will transfer the fund into your private account where you know it
will be save, then I will come over to your country with all the
information’s you gave to me and also with your address to collect our own
share of the fund from you, so that is all,

If you are interested in the transaction reply back immediately to my
private

Email address; peter_donald@myway.com.

Thanks,
Mr. Peter l. Donald,
Private accountant.


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