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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: Mr David Peter <mrdavidpeter5050@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrdavidpeter5051@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:41:36 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Dear Friend,




Dear Friend,
With due respect to your person and  much sincerity of purpose I make this contact with you as I believe that you can be of great assistance to me. my name is Mr. DAVID PETER from BURKINA FASO in West Africa. Presently I work in the Bank as the Manager in Charge of Auditing and Accounting Section, I  am about to retire from active Bank service to start a new life but I am sceptical to reveal this particular secret to a stranger . 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 was 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 Bank 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 $150 Billion of Dollars during the process .As I am sending this message to you, I was able to divert more than Fifty Million Dollars to an escrow account belonging to no one in the bank.  The banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after four years the money will be transferred into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The $50 Million Dollars has been lying 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. The money will be shared 60% for me and 40% for you, If you are capable of being my trusted associate, do declare your consent to me.Waiting for your urgent response.
Yours Faithfully,
Mr DAVID PETER

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