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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 Sands <lojoga@upcmail.ro>
Reply-To: petersands891@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 22:33:17 +0200 (EET)
Subject: CAN I TRUST YOU.

Dear Friend,

Good day to you. This email might come to you as a surprise and the temptation
to ignore it as serious could come into your mind but please consider it and
accept it with a deep sense of humility. Before proceeding, I wish to introduce
myself to you. I am Peter Sands Group Chief Executive at Standard Chartered Bank
Hong Kong, I contacted you concerning our late customer and an investment placed
under our banks management before the Iraq war. I would respectfully request
that you keep the contents of this mail confidential and respect the integrity
of the information you come by as a result of this mail.

I contacted you independently of my investigation and no one is informed of this
communication. I would like to acquaint you with certain facts that might be of
interest to you. In 2009,Hashim Ahmed, a businessman, also who was with the
Iraqi forces and our Client, made a fixed deposit of Thirty Five Million Five
Hundred Thousand United State Dollars only in my branch, a number of notices was
sent to him when it was due, but no response came from him till date. We later
found out that the General along with his family had been killed in a bomb blast
that hit their home, what bothers me most is according to the laws of my country
at the expiration of 6 years the funds will revert to the Hong Kong Government
if nobody comes for the funds, Against this scenery, I have all the information
needed to claim these funds.

All I require is your honest co-operation and I guarantee that this will be
executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect me and you from any
breach of the law. Please accept my apologies Your interest to assist me was
rather unspecific as a result of which I am quite skeptical in believing that
you could be of assistance to me, therefore I would like to be sure of your
willingness, trustworthiness and commitment to execute this transaction with me,
I cannot afford to compromise these virtues considering the money involved, it
is necessary for me to be sure of the person to whom I will be entrusting this
transaction, my trust is not given out lightly.

What I expect from you is trust and commitment, I want this large sum of money
transferred with your assistance and you should have nothing to worry about
regarding legality AT ALL. I want to know if you are willing to follow up this
business seriously before I can give you more details about this transaction,
however I shall be waiting for your response and assurance along with your full
Names and private contacts (ADDRESS, PHONE & FAX) just as it will appear on the
documents..

Sincerely,
Peter Sands.

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