419 scam: "Mr. Danny Peterson." <messageoffice32@gmail.com> DEAR BENEFICIARY,

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "economic and financial crime commission" (This name is often mentioned in money recovery scams (re-scam): the real EFCC does not contact victims to offer to get their money back because that is near impossible. )
- "(efcc)" (This name is often mentioned in money recovery scams (re-scam): the real EFCC does not contact victims to offer to get their money back because that is near impossible. )
- "ecowas " (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
- "abuja" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
- "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- unitedbank489@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Danny Peterson." <messageoffice32@gmail.com>
Reply-To: unitedbank489@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 05:56:44 -0700
Subject: DEAR BENEFICIARY,

--
This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United Nations
and Ecowas to pay 367 Nigerian 419 Compensation Payment scam victims, the
sum of USD$4.3Million each, you are listed and approved for these payments
as one of the scammed victims, respond immediately as directed for the
immediate payments of the USD$4.3 million compensations funds to you.

This recommendation was made during the last UN and Ecowas meetings held at
Abuja, Nigeria, where it was discovered and alarmed so much by the rest of
the world during deliberations on the meeting over the loss of funds by
various foreigners to the scam's artists operating as syndicates all over
the world today, in order to flush out this ugly trend and redeem the good
image of the country.

The new President Muhammad Buhari of the country is now paying 367 victims
of this operators USD $4.3 million each as instructed by United Nation to
redeem the image of the country Nigeria, Due to inefficient banking systems
in Nigeria coupled with high level of corruption among its officials, the
payments are to be paid via an ATM VISA CARD from United Bank of Nigeria
acceptable in all banks of international settlements as acceptable by the
beneficiary.

According to the number of applicants at hand, 299 beneficiaries have been
paid, half of the victims are from the United States, we still have 68 more
left to be paid in this compensation fund.

Your particulars was mentioned by one of the syndicates who was arrested
in Lagos Nigeria,(the center nerve of this syndicates) as one of their Scam
victims , you are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this
message to any person contacting you again in respect to any fund from
Africa or any part of the world for any reason whatsoever, the US secret
service working handy with the Economic and financial crime commission
(EFCC) in Nigeria is already on trial of this syndicates whose tentacles
has been widely spread.

You are hereby instructed to contact me back at my office email (
unitedbank489@gmail.com ) to transfer the Fund to you immediately.

Regards,

Mr. Danny Peterson.

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