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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: Pee Jenior <upuse554@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <upuse551@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 23:26:53 +0000
Subject: GET BACK TO ME


Dear Sir,

Details
of My Proposal,

I am Head of
Investments & Deputy Treasurer, International Commercial Bank, Accra Ghana.
I handle all 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 $20,000,000 Million (USD)
over time from Investor's EMRCP and hereby looking for someone to trust who
will stand as an Investor to receive the funds as Tenure Investment Proceeds.

Brief history
of funds: I have more than 208 Corporate Investors attached to my portfolio
whose Capital Investment Funds are being managed and administered by me. This
Capital Investment Funds has a value of over $19.2 Billion net. The $19.2 Billion
is been used for trading in Stock Market, Crude Oil and Lending 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 otherwise our establishment will
convert the funds into the company's treasury. This is why I have come to you
for the deal to take place. This is a fair deal without any risk attached
either on your part or on my part as long as we comply with the laws governing
the claiming of funds in our establishment.

Some bank
manager has acquired houses and investments abroad through their foreign
Partner by the same source. Upon my retirement this year, I intend to relocate
to your country for investment, if you are interested to continue with this
project, I demand you to get back to me so as we can proceed towards the
positivity of this fair deal.

Sincerely
yours,

Peter Akomeah.

Tel: +233-500-494-867.






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