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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: "Mr Peter Green" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <barpetergreen244@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 23:05:39 +0100
Subject: INTERNATIONAL FUNDS TRANSFER / AUDIT UNIT#

(INTERNATIONAL FUNDS TRANSFER / AUDIT UNIT)
YOUR TRANSFER BY INSTALLMENT ACCEPTED BY THE BANK


Attention:


Having understood your unstable situation, we in united Nations begged the Bank to accept payment by installment on your behalf, to enable our beneficiaries receive their payment that we may reconcile with all countries of the world. We understood your plight as someone who has suffered a lot to get this fund into your private account.


As matter of urgency,i want you to write the Barrister and request that you want the money to be transferred to your account by installments to enable him forward all the documents to the paying bank, so that once the first payments enters into your account you can then use money from there to facilitate the transfer of the rest, once the first installments enters
into your account that will equally give you another opportunity to do a test-transfer and withdrawal from your account to master Federal Reserve Online transfer procedure.


*Suggestions:*


If 50% of $1000 is equal to = $500
By calculations: if $1000 can handle US$1 Million Dollars $500 can also comfortably transfer the sum of US$500,000


Once the $500,000 is successfully transferred, you can withdraw money from there to handle the transfer of your rest US$7.5M.


NOTE: Write the Attorney immediately and tell them how much you have with you right now so that the Bank can calculate to tell you how much you may receive as first payments-by installments, Do not be shy to indicate the amount you have in hands (no proper-amount is so small to trigger installments-payment base on our discussion with the Bank) so
that the first payment will move to your account for you to confirm the existence ofthe fund before your proceed for the balance.


Attorney's E-mail Address: barpetergreen121@gmail.com


Congratulations!


Mr Peter Green
United Nations House, 617/618.
Diplomatic Zone,
Central Area District,
Federal Capital Territory,
Abuja,

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