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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: "Mr. Peter Johnson" <fbrown2045@gmail.com>
Reply-To: pj393050@mail.ru
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 14:56:28 -0700
Subject: Hello Dear

Hello Dear

I write only to seek your assistance, My name is Mr. Peter Johnson, I am
the Fund Manager, with Fidelity International Investments, one of the
worlds largest investment companies. In the UK, I wish to state that I am
impressed with your brief profile details on the internet network and i
feel that it will be good to share this investment proposal with you.

I represent an Investment interest the total Sum of
$50,000,000.00.USD.(FIFTY MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY) and will like
to deploy in your area of expertise in your country and under an investment
project supervised by you. our sharing ratio will be 50% for me while 50%
for you, so if you are honest and interested, reply me through this email:(
pj393050@mail.ru) for more details.

I hope this cooperation will be of interest to you and we can go ahead with
the details upon your response, and assure you that this transaction is
100% risk free and troublesome as the fund is legitimate.

Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Peter Johnson

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