419 scam: susan peters <susanpeters396@ymail.com> Hello Dear,

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "hundred thousand united state dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
- "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +22967555733 (Benin, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: susan peters <susanpeters396@ymail.com>
Reply-To: susanpeters360@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 13:30:03 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Hello Dear,

Hello Dear,

Permit me to inform you of my desire to introduce to you into this humanitarians work. I decided to do this after praying over the situation. You should please consider the transaction on its content and not the fact that you have not known me before. I need not dwell on how I came by your contact information because there are many such possibilities these days. I would like to introduce myself as Mrs. Susan Gama Peters, of Republic of Benin, widow to Late Dr. Edward Tibos peters (formal Consular of the Benin Embassy in Madrid, Spain. I have been recently diagnosed of Cancer of the Pelvic. I am writing to you now from my sick bed here in the hospital.

There is $8.5M (Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand united state dollars) my husband has in an account with the BANK OF AFRICAN BENIN (BOA) of which I am the next of kin. With my health condition and because my husband and I have no child, I decide to contact you so that I will pass the right of next of kin to you. I will send to you the document that covers the fund in the Bank which you will use to contact the bank and request for the re-transferring of the fund to your own bank account. This is on the condition that you will take only 30% of the fund for yourself, while you will use the remaining 70% to help the less privileges people in the society.

This is in fulfillment of the last request of my late husband: that a substantial part of the fund be used to carter for the less privilege people, If this condition is acceptable to you, you should contact The Doctor through his telephone number +229-67555733 Hospital Address: CENTRAL HOSPITAL BENIN, 124 bp, Midombo Cotonou

Benin Republic, Contact person Doctor Marc Nicholas.

I look forward to your immediate response,

Yours Sincerely,

Mrs. Susan Gama Peters

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