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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 <mrdavidpeter5050@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrdavidpeter51@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:07:01 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Dear Friend.




Dear Friend.   I am writing this mail to you With due respect trust and humanity, I appeal to you to exercise a little patience and read through my letter I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business, I have a business of $10 Million dollars to be transfer to your account for investment in your country if you are  ready to assist me get back to me i will give you full details on  how the money will be transfer to you.   You must assure me that everything will be handled confidentially because we are not going to suffer again in life. It has been 10 years now that most of the greedy African Politicians used our Bank to launder money overseas through the help of their Political advisers. Most of the funds which they transferred out of the shores of Africa were gold and oil money that was supposed to have been used to develop the continent. Their Political advisers always inflated the amounts before transfer to foreign  accounts so I
also used the opportunity to divert part of the funds hence I am aware that there is no official trace of how much was transferred as all the accounts used for such transfers were being closed after transfer. I acted as the Account Officer to most of the politicians and when I discovered that they were using me to succeed in their greedy act, I also cleaned some of their Banking records from the Bank files and no one cared to ask me because the money was too much for them to control.   They laundered over $580 million Dollars during the process .As I am sending this message to you; I was able to divert Ten million Dollars ($10 M) to an escrow account belonging to no one in the Bank. The bank is anxious now to know who the beneficiary to the funds is because they have made a lot of profits with the funds. It is more than Eight years now and most of the politicians are no longer using our Bank to transfer funds overseas. The $10 Million Dollars has been
laying waste but I don't want to retire from the Bank without transferring the funds to a foreign account to enable me share the proceeds with the receiver.   This fund will be shared between us in the ratio of 50% for me and 40% for you. While 10% for any incurable expenses that will come during the transfer, There is no one coming to ask you about the funds because I secured everything If you're willing to handle this deal with me kindly get back to me with the following. Your Age and occupation, your Private telephone and fax numbers for easy communication/your personal picture to enable me know whom I’ am dealing with. Your location and full contact address. I will send to you the Test of application form which you will apply directly to the Bank.   Note I want you to keep this business strictly confidential for security reasons as you may know that the Bank doesn’t know that I am the one who contacted you to stand for this claim. Best Regard.
David Peter.

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