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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: Rose Petters <rose608@qip.ru>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 21:45:11 +0300
Subject: From Mrs. Rose Petters.

My Dearest,

I am sending you this private email to make a passionate appeal to you for assistance, I am Mrs.Rose Petters from South Africa, and I am married to Mr. John E. Petters who before his death was a Real-Estate Broker and Crude Oil Merchant in the province of Africa. We were married for 15 years without a
child. Before the death of my husband we were both born again Christians.

My Husband left the sum of US$16.400 million United States Dollars in a fix/suspense account in one of the prime bank in Republic of Cote d’ Ivoire. Recently, my Doctor told me that I would not exceed more than five more months due to lung cancer (NSCLC) problem. Having known my condition I decided to seek for your kind assistance to transfer my inherited fund into your account and you will use it to train my adopted Son Williams and also use 20% of the fund to assist the less privileged children in your country, while 15% of the total will be for your compensation in respect of your integrity and devotion regarding your assistance to me, You will take my adopted Son Williams as your God child and brought him up in a good and decent manner in his educations and investment partnership with reamining 65% left behind.

I took this decision to contact you because of my condition and for the facts that my husband relatives wants to size everything and throw my adopted Son Williams out of the inheritance. So I want to use this little time I have to achieve this arm before joining my ancestors.

Please indicate your interest and willingness in this transaction by writing back to me .I want your maximum cooperation and keep this as confidential for security reasons. I am sincerely waiting for your kind and urgent response as soon as your receive this mail.

Thanks and Remain Blessed,

Sincerely Yours

Mrs. Rose Petters.


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