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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: "Egnr. Peter Foxs" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <foxspeter213@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 02:24:23 -0500
Subject: REF: URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS

From Engineer Peter Foxs,
Department of Budget and Planning
Ministry of Petroleum,
Accra Ghana
+233240603138

REF: URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS
PROPOSAL.
Most competent people are chosen for competent jobs and
assignments, and with that due respect have we also chosen to
select you and contact you on this very confidential matter.

Our Accra Ghana Chamber of Commerce and industry offers variety of
names of notable people from your part of the Globe.

That was where I got your information from. Therefore, after due
deliberation with my partners, we decided to forward to you this
proposal. We believe that you would be in a position to help us in
our did to transfer the sum of US$41.5M(Forty-0ne million, five
hundred thousand dollars only) into a foreign account.

We shall make it 100% legal as much possible as you would want.
We are members of the special committee for budget and planning
of the Ministry of Petroleum. This committee is principally
concerned with contract appraisals and approval of contracts in
order of priorities as regards CAPITAL PROJECTS of the
Government of Ghana.

With our positions, we have successfully secured for ourselves the
sum of Forty-one Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars(US$41.5M). We are working with the present Democratically
elected Government in my country, and we are seeking the support
of Foreign Government to win the next election coming up, which
the race has started.

So they have given directive to all Federal
Parastatals to settle all Foreign Contractors being owed for contract
that they have done.


Therefore, our plan is to include your name as one of the
contractors being owed in our corporation. What we need from you
is to provide a safe Account into which the funds will be transferred
since Government Officials in my country are not allowed by our
laws to Operate Foreign Accounts.


It has been agreed that you will be compensated with US$8.3
Million of the remitted funds. US$31.125Million belongs to us, while US$2.075Million will be set aside to offset expenses and pay the necessary taxes.It may interest you to know that two years ago a similar transaction was carried out
with one Mr. Patrice Miller, the C.E.O of Crane International
Trading Corporation at number 135, East 57th street, 28th
floor,New York 10022, with(212)308-7788 and Telex Number
6731689. After the agreement between both of us in which he was
to take 25% of the money as his share, the money was duly
transferred into his Account.

We were disappointed on our arrival in New York as we were
reliably informed that Mr. Patrice Miller was no longer on that
address while his Telephone and Telex Numbers have been
reallocated to somebody else. That was how we lost US$27.5M to
Mr.Patrice Miller.

This time around we would not want you to be like that. We need a
more reliable and trustworthy person and a reputable Company to
do this business with, hence we contacted you.

So if you can prove yourself to be trusted and interested in this
deal then we are prepared to do business with you.What we want
from you is the assurance that you will let us have our share when
this amount of US$41.5M is transferred into your account.

If this proposal satisfies you, please contact us, so we can advice
you on the modalities of the transaction. All modalities of this
transfer, have been worked out and once started will not take more
than 7 Banking days with the absolute support of all
concerned.This transaction is 100% safe and risk free now and after
the transfer.

Kindly treat this as a confidential matter and reply to foxspeter213@gmail.com for immediate attention.
Best regards.

Engineer Peter Foxs,
Department of Budget and Planning
Ministry of Petroleum,
Accra Ghana

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