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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: Dr Peter Voser <voserinfo@gmail.com>
Reply-To: dr.petervoser@outlook.com
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 07:36:21 -0700
Subject: Business Proposal

>From The Desk Of: Dr Peter Voser
(Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director,(CEO)
Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Shell Centre
London SE1 7NA, Ref: number: 4366849
United Kingdom, Private Tell:+44-7031996715

Good Day Sir/Madam,

Before i introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is
not a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious. This letter must
come to you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a day that
people meet and become great friends and business partners. Please I
want you to read this letter very carefully and I must apologize for
barging this message into your mail box without any formal
introduction due to the urgency and confidential of this issue and I
know that this message will come to you as a surprise. Please this is
not a joke and I will not like you to joke with it ok.

I am Dr. Peter Voser, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director
of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, United Kingdom. With due respect to your
personality I am contacting you to consummating a deal with me;
A file was served to my office on 5th January 2013 that my late
officer Mr. Ben John Kennedy a Sudanese Citizen who died in Syria last
5yrs ago on bomb attack, have deposited the sum of GB5,000000.00
pounds (Five Million Great Britain Pounds Only) with Standard bank Of
England. So why am contacting you is that as stated by the holding
bank on their letter served to my office that this capital have over
stayed in their database as a dormant account due to un-maintenance of
the account so that this capital have to be transfer before 20th April
2014, and after that, if the capital is still dormant that their
banking remittance operator will go on confiscating the account and
make the capital government inheritance.

So I needed your maxi-mum co-operation on consummate this deal because
i believe that one day that people meet to become great friends and
business partnership so please i need your assistance to handle this
deal with me by providing me your last name so that i can provide you
to the bank as the next of kin to this capital and we share it in the
end. be assure that you don't have anything to fear off as I am going
to guide you on every steps on what to do and also provide you all the
necessary and vital documents you will need, to legal the capital as
the next of kin so that the bank will transfer the capital to you with
out any hitches;
why I don't want to claim the capital by my self is that no how I can
claim to be My late client as the Executive Officer and Director of
the company so this may lead to suspect from our company and the bank
so with my position I am assuring you that who's ever I place his/her
name on this capital as the rightful beneficiary that the bank will
transfer the capital to. I have tried if i can locate for my late
client place but couldn't do to serious war going on in Sudan now and
no other time remain to be waste, so this is why I decide to look for
a Foreign Partner whom will help me on securing the capital as the
next of kin and we share it with out any cheating or be-trade.

Noted with thanks: You should keep every information about this deal
top secret with me as I'm acquainting you that this deal is "100%
risky free" and no third party know about this capital or coming to
ask you because under my custody as the Chief Executive Officer and
Executive Director of the Company. Mean while I will like to cap you
how the estate is going to be share between us. The capital will be
share (50%)-(50%) between both of us with out cheating or be-trade.

So Please will you like to consummate this deal with me, you urgently
reply me back via (dr.petervoser@outlook.com) so that I will forward
you more details on the estate and what to do next for our further
procedures.

I hope that this mail found you in good faith/health.

Warmest Regards,
Dr. Peter Voser
Private Tell:+44-7031996715
(Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, (CEO)

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