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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:

Fraud email example:

From: james peter <james90peter@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:55:14 +0100
Subject: Hi

Hello dear,
Your attention and interest is highly required regarding the information I
am about to unveil to you. I am Mr. James Peter, a lawyer and personal
attorney to late Engr.M. who died in the Republic of Togo. I was mandated
to contact you seeing that you bear the same last name to my deceased
client whose nationality is yours too.

I seek your consent to present you as his next of kin in order to pursue
the release of his unclaimed deposit which is valued in some millions of US
dollars. I shall explain in details if only you could directly respond back
using your personal email address and contact me by this my private email
as stated thus:(james90peter@gmail.com)

In order to serve you with more explanations, I advice you use your
personal email id to contact me by this email:(james90peter@gmail.com)


Regards,

James Peter. Esq

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