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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: "Dr.Peter Ojimbo" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <peter.ojimbo1960@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 10:30:23 -0700
Subject: Attn: Sir

Attn: Sir

We want to transfer to overseas ($ 152,000.000.00USD) One hundred and Fifty two million United states Dollars from a Bank in Africa. I am Dr. Peter Ojimbo, the Auditor General of a bank in Africa, during the course of our auditing, I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in 1990 and since 1993 nobody has operated on this account again, after going through some old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without a [heir] hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account is Mr. Arthur Coleman , a foreigner, and an Industrialist, who died since 1993 and no other person knows about this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that Arthur Coleman until his death was the manager of Coleman Co.(pty).

We will start the first transfer with fifty two million [$52,000.000] upon successful transaction without any disappointment from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining amount to your account.

The amount involved is (USD 152M) One hundred and Fifty two million United States Dollars only. I want to first transfer $52,000.000 [fifty two million United States Dollars from this money into a safe foreigners account abroad before the rest, but I don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here, without valid international foreign passport, but can only be approved to a foreigner with valid international passport or drivers license and foreign a/c because the money is in US DOLLARS and the former owner of the a/c Mr. Arthur Coleman is a foreigner too, [and the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c.I need your strong assurance that you will never, never let me down. With my influence and the position of the bank official, we can transfer this money to any foreigner's reliable account which you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending our physical arrival in your country for sharing. least two da
I look forward to your earliest reply.

please kindly reply to my email peter.ojimbo1960@gmail.com

Thanks for your cooperation. Regards and God bless you.

Dr.Peter Ojimbo

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