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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: PETER BOURDILON <peterbourdilon@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 19:33:22 +0100
Subject: IMPORTANT BUSINESS MESSAGE

Dear sir/madam ,

My name is PETER BOURDILLON. a branch manager of a prime bank in
London.I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise as we
never met before. I Hope that you will not expose or betray this trust
and confident that I am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit
of our both families. I need your urgent assistance in transferring
the sum of £ 12,000,000.00 ( £ 12, million GBP ) to your bank account.

The fund has been dormant (in-active) for a long time in our Financial
Institution here in London without any body coming for it. I want to
release the fund to you as the nearest person to our deceased customer
(the owner of the account) who died along with his supposed next of
kin in air crash since 31st July 2000. The Bank will release the fund
to you as the nearest person to the deceased customer. For more
information about the crash you can visit this site:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm ;

I thus propose to do business with you, standing in as the next of kin
of these funds from the deceased and after due legal processes have
been followed the fund will be released to your account without delay
and we will use it for investment because if we leave the fund with
the government it will be fortified for nothing and will be used to
suppress the poor masses in the society.This transaction is totally
free of risk and the fund is clean money from genuine source.

Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and
delete it if you are not interested. Upon receipt of your reply, I
will send you more details regarding this transaction. Finally, you
will have 50% of the above mentioned amount and 50% for me hence it's
two person's business.

I need to hear from you urgently so that I will send you more
information regarding this transaction. I look forward to hear from
you as soon as possible if you are interest.

Regards,

PETER BOURDILLON.

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