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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: "PEUGEOT CITROEN COMPANY LTD" <peugeot_company_limited@msn.com>
Reply-To: peugeot-company-ltd@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 13:34:45 +0000
Subject: PAYMENT ASSISTANT NEEDED

            http://www.3arabiyat.com/allcars.asp                                           http://www.peugeot.lk/contact.htm   
FROM THE DESK OF THE
CHAIRMAN-MANAGING BOARD,
PSA PEUGEOT CITROEN GROUP
 
THE JOB FOR PAYMENT ASSISTANT IS NEEDED APPLY IMMEDIATELY

Dear Sir/Madam,

          Top of the day to you. Let me crave your indulgence to introduce myself to you I am JEAN-MARTIN FOLZ-CHAIRMAN-MANAGING BOARD, PSA PEUGEOT CITROEN GROUP. We are Producers coupling of PEUGEOT cars and marketers and export into the foreign countries around the world. We will want to solicit for your assistance to help our company receive payment from customer around united state ,europe ,asia countries ,that is due for payment to our company for services and supplies we rendered to customers.
          Please if you are willing to assist, I will want you to furnish us with your particulars, so as to enable us give you further details. Please if your are applying for this job, you have to be an honest and trusted person, as more payments will be made through you in the course of this transaction. And more so you will be entitled to 10% of every payment that you are able to receive for us from our customers. Please contact us for more information via email with the below informations filled out.
FULL NAME........................................
COMPANY NAME:......................................
MAILING ADDRESS..................................
AGE:.............................................
OCCUPATION:......................................
STATUS:..........................................
STATE/COUNTRY....................................
TELEPHONE NUMBERS................................
FAX NUMBER:......................................
 
We look forward in working with you.
Mr.Thierry Armengaud
Sales/Marketing Manager
PSA Peugeot Citroen group
Email:financialdepartment@emailaccount.com
www.peugeot.com

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