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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: "Daniel Peter" <donaogbe10@gmail.com>
Reply-To: europayfinancialsecurities@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 10:20:30 +0300 (EEST)
Subject: RE

From Dr Daniel Peter
EUROPAY FINANCIAL SECURITIES
BELGIUM.

Attention Beneficary,

I am Dr Daniel Peter the new EXECUTIVE VAULT DIRECTOR and Operations
cordinator of EUROPAY FINANCIAL SECURITIES BELGIUM.

Sometime ago, in our organization an overdue consignment fund was brought
to our office for final confistication. However, upon my arrival to this
office, I found the consignment confistication file kept without any
attention. On a through scrutiny I discovered that your the have been
abandoned by your delivery agent because it was taged valuable document
and for real it was cash loaded. Meanwhile, I have made several attempts
to contact the various personal of my former office in U.k for info and it
the final update is that the consignment can never be traced and it has
been erased from the computer.

To my greatest surprise, during my recent routine checking, I personally
discovered that the content declaration
documents stated that the consignment contains personal effects meanwhile,
it contains United States dollar bills worth over US$6.5 Million dollars,
which made it impossible for the consignment to be deposited by myself
into any finacial institution here in this country due to my post of work
and my recognition as a financial espert.
Based on this personal discovery, I wish i can take chances and extradite
the consignment with my position and power in this office, I will assist
in creating the legal clearance to the consignment fund, but you must
agree with the
following conditions:

You must not disclose to any member of my organization whatever i will do
in respect of clearing this consignment fund into your custody.You will
provide me with an authenticated promissory note, otherwise known as
partnership
agreement, that upon the safe arrival of the consignment fund to your
custody, that i own 70 % of the total fund contained in the
consignment.You must give adequate attention to this matter until we
successfully and legally clear the consignment fund into your custody.

Upon your acceptance with my above conditions, I will furnish you with
further details of what should be done to legally get the consignment fund
cleared and delivered to you as the rightful owner of the consignment.
Meanwhile, if you know that you would be unable to keep the secret as i
said in this regards, please do not border to reply.. But if you can
assure me of your competency to keep this secret, I would like to hear
from
you soon as possibleI am looking forward to your earliest response. If i
read from you within 7days then i wont be in touch with anyonelse.

Have a Great Day
Dr Daniel Peter

Head of Operations
EUROPAY FINANCIAL SECURITIES
delivery and Vaut Cordinator
info:europay.blogspot.com
direct line..... 0032 4933 472 72.(only when its urgent)

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