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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 Denis <peterdenis101@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 17:48:42 +0000
Subject: CAN I PARTNER WITH YOU?

Dear Partner,

How are you doing ? Actually, this correspondence is purely private,
and it should be treated as such. I am contacting you based on Trust
and confidentiality
that will be attached to this deal for the benefit of both of us.

Please Read The Following Information Carefully, I am an officer in
the Bank in Foreign Remittance Department, where I manage private
client’s accounts as a
Director for Credit & Marketing. I handle most of our Investor's
Direct Capital Funds and secretly extract 1.2% Excess Maximum Return
Capital Profit (EMRCP)
per annum on each of the Investor's Capital Funds.

As an expert, I have made US$12.6 million over time from Investor's
EMRCP and hereby looking for someone to trust who would be willing to
stand as an
Investor to receive the funds as Tenure Investment Proceeds in his or
her account. Brief history of funds: I have more than 98 Corporate
Investors attached
to my portfolio whose Capital Investment Funds are being managed and
administered by me. This Capital Investment Funds is been used for
trading in Stock
Market, Sales and Purchases of Bonds with Profit Returns. Every end of
year, each corporate investor is expected to receive interest from his
total Investment Capital Funds. However, I make an excess of 1.2% from
the Investor's Investment Capital Funds annually which have exceeded
our targeted 20% of
Total Investment Capital Funds. This extra of 1.2% from the 21.2% is
been retained by me as my personal profits for managing the Capital
Investment.

However, I cannot claim these funds without presenting someone to
stand as an Investor to claim these funds otherwise our establishment
will convert the
funds into the bank's treasury at the end of second quarter and this
is where you come in. This is a fair deal without any risk attached
either on your part
or on my part. Since I have exclusive access to every file and with my
proximity, I can put you in as an Investor to my Bank and attached the
profit fund to
your portfolio in order to speedily facilitate the remittance of the
funds out of my Bank. I already have a master plan to see this project
through without
hitches.

Meanwhile, at the successful completion of this project, I am willing
to give you 40% of the total funds for your assistance and you will
keep the 60% for me
safely in your account until my arrival at your place.However, I would
want to know if it will be possible for you to first come to Mali-west
AFrica and have a meeting
with me so that we can know ourselves very well and to also clear any
doubts that you might be having at the moment? This will help us to
know each other and
to discuss and deliberate further on how to make the whole money
available to you without hitches.Please if you are interested to
partner with me in this project, I demand you to get back to me so I
can provide you with further details and the best way to complete the
project.

On the other hand, if this proposal is of no appeal to you, kindly
delete this message and forget I ever contacted you. You owe me no
obligation for refusing
my proposal as this is of mutual benefit.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely
Peter Denis

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