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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: petereze140@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:43:58 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Now=20contact=20my=20secretary?=

Dear Friend,

I'm happy to inform you about my success in gettingthose funds transferred
under the
cooperation of a new partner from Isreal. Presently I'm in Chile forinvestment

projects with my own share of the totalsum. Meanwhile, I didn't forget your
past
efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring those fundsdespite that
it failed
us some how.
Now contact my secretary, his name is ONYEBUCHI LUKE Email;onyebuchi_luke2@yahoo.fr

ask him to send you the total $2.500,000.00 which I kept for your compensation
for
all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in that matter.

I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. so feel free and get
in touched
with my secretary ONYEBUCHI LUKE and instruct him where to send the amount
to
you. Please do let me know immediately you receive it so
that we can share the joy after all the suffer ness at that time. in the
moment,

I am very busy here because of the investment projects which me and the
new partner
are having at hand,finally,remember that I had forwarded instruction to
the secretary on your behalf to receive that money, so feel free to get
in touch with
ONYEBUCHI LUKE he will send the amount to you without any delay.

and he will send the amount to you without any delay.
With best regards,
Mr peter eze140


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