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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: "Dr.Peter Ngema" <drpeterngema55@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <drpeter_ngema22@yahoo.es>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:38:16 +0100
Subject: urgent/confidential
















AFRICAN UNION DEVELOPMENT BANK OF NIGERIA(A.U.D.B)
DESK OF:Dr.Peter Ngema.
Lagos-Nigeria.
RC.27199

Atten: President / C.E.O.

Dear Friend,

I have a proposal for you, this however is not mandatory nor will I in any manner compel you to honor against your Will. I am Dr.Peter Ngema. and work with AFRICAN UNION DEVELOPMENT BANK OF NIGERIA(A.U.D.B)(one of the African leading banks in the West Coast).

I am writing this letter to ask for your support and cooperation to carry out this business opportunity in my department. We discovered an abandoned sum of $15,000,000M US DOLLARS (15 million United States Dollars only) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Mr.Andreas Schranner who died along with his entire family of a wife and two children in July 31st 2000 in a plane

For further
enquiry view the web-site for more details.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm.

When I discovered that there had been neither deposits nor withdrawals from this account for this long period, I decided to carry out a systematic investigation and discovered that none of the family member nor relations of the late person is aware of this account since the deceased had no son or daughter to represent him as next of kin.

This is the story in a nutshell. Now I want an account overseas where this fund will be transfer according to the due process of our bank in order to avoid violations of any country and International Monetary law on fund transfer.

Thereafter, I had planned to destroy all related documents for this account. It is a Careful network and for the past eleven months I have worked out everything to ensure a hitch-free operation. The amount is not so much at the moment and plus all the accumulated Interest the balance in this account stands at (US$15.million US dollars).

Now my questions are:-

1. Can you handle this project?

2. Can I give you this trust?

3. What will be your commission? If you can sponsor this Transfer, consider this and get back to me as
soon as Possible.

Upon the receipt of this mail message, feel free to send to me the Following details you will find below, to this my e-mail address (drpeter_ngema22@yahoo.es)To enable us start the
process:

1. Your full Names and contact Address.

2. Your private Telephone, cell phone and fax numbers.
Plus any forms of your personal Identification.

I look forward to receiving your prompt response.

Respectfully yours,

Dr.Peter Ngema.
Manager, Bills and Exchange
AFRICAN UNION DEVELOPMENT BANK OF NIGERIA(A.U.D.B)
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