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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 Mudada <petermudada1@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Peter Mudada <petermudada@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 12:48:47 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From Peter Mudada

Dear Friend,

Accept my apologize for contacting you through medium but for security reason and of course confidentiality, I have no better and safer means to carry out this project, First and foremost, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction and I pray that my decision to contact you will be given genuine approval I wish to use this opportunity to introduce myself again.

My name is Peter Mudada from Zimbabwe, and again I wish to know your terms and conditions for joint investment with us and the extent of assistance we can get from you as an individual to secure and invest funds in our disposal at your country.

I will also be glad to know if you will also assist us to relocate and obtain resident papers in your country. I stay here in Ghana with my mother and my sisters as asylum seekers after the death of my father whom was a strong critic of President Robert Mugagbe back home and whom also made his deposit in Safekeeping Company in Ghana.

Before he died he revealed to me and my mother about the box containing: some raw gold and $15 million, (fifteen million us dollars). Which he deposited with a Safekeeping company in Ghana for safekeeping.

The good news is that my father did not disclose the real content to the Safekeeping Company Authorities; he told them that it was Precious Family Treasures, gift meant for his foreign business associate to avoid the officials from raising eyebrows to the funds. So no body knows the real content as money and gold only I and my mother know. Presently I and my mother are here in Ghana to notify the Safekeeping company for the claims, we are here in a refugees camp.

Therefore I want you to stand as my late father foreign business associate and be our beneficiary to this funds and withdraw the funds out from the Safekeeping company as the direct beneficiary of the consignment and direct us on how best we can invest this funds, because my father told me that it is dangerous to invest this money in Zimbabwe to avoid suspicions, and due to market instability coupled with economic and political instability facing Zimbabwe, that is why we want to invest in Abroad.

All we need from you is an assurance that you can handle the raw gold and amount involved fifteen million us dollars, comfortably and that we can also trust you with this arrangement. Please reply and tell me your willingness about this project, so I can furnish you with other necessary information’s.

The depository documents about this consignment are very intact with us. I want you to stand as the foreign business associate of my late father so that we can move this fund to your country or any country of your choice for investment that will benefit us in near future.

Again I will like to have your contact details such as, your full name, occupation, Telephone number, and address.


Waiting for your urgent response.

Regards,
Peter.

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