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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 glomo <peterglomo9@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:40:31 +0100 (BST)
Subject: CAN I TRUST YOU?




Dear Sir,

Forgive me if this message might offend you without your prior consent and writing through this channel .I am Mr.Peter Glomo the director, in charge of Auditing and Accounting sector of Contract Awarding Committe of African Economic monitoring Authority South Africa.

In due respect and regard, I have decided to contact you on a business transaction that will be very benficial to both of us at the end of the transaction. During our investigation and auditing in (AEMA) my department we discovered a huge sum of money that was prepaid and un-recorded for in the books of Accounts.
We discovered that it has been floating since 1997 through 2001 in African development Bank. this is found out to be over influence on contract payments. Personally the information is kept secret by me and my partner to enable the whole plan and ideas profitable and successful during the time of execution. The said amount was USD$14,000,000(fourteen millionU.S.dollars).
As it may interest you to know, I got your impressive information through the chamber of commerce in foreign business relations here in South African.
personally my spirit recommended your contacts to me to be valuable and capable to champion a business of such magnitude without any problem.

In fact I could have done this alone but because of my position in this country as a civil servant we are not allowed to operate a foreign account and would eventually raise an eyebrow on my side during the time of transfer because I work in this ministry. This is the actual reason why it will require a second party or fellow, who will forward claim as the contractor and also present a foreign account where the money would be tranfered into as a payment for contract executed as it may be after due verification by
designation board.
I would not fail to inform you that this transaction is 100% risk-free. On smooth conclusion of this transaction, you would be entitled to 25% sum as
gratification,while 5% will be set aside to take care of expenses that may arise during the time of transfer and also telephone bills, while 70% will be for me and my partners.Please, you have been advise to keep top-secret as we are still in service and intend to retire from service after we conclude this deal with you.

Yours Faithfully.
Mr. Peter Glomo.


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