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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: Peters Bill <pe_b01@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:34:44 +0100
Subject: CONTACT ME.


Hello,

It is a pleasure meeting you at last for i have waited for this golden
moment. I am Mr Peter Bill of the (PETER CHARTTERED ACCOUNTANT IN LONDON),my late client died and was buried at vertical city. My late client has an account in a bank in europe with a credit balance of TEN million ,six hundred thousand dollars($10.600,000),which has been dormant for a very long
time.

All efforts to contact the named beneficiary to late Pope John Paul 2's
estate,who died on 2 April 2005.You can view this CNN website for details on the death of Pope John Paul II onthe 2nd of April, 2005:-www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/pope with the supplied information proved futile. My good friend , i am contacting you because i want you to claim this money with me as the new next of kin and also i have the necessary information that would enable us to this claim.

Please kindly send me your full name, your address,and your telephone
number,fax number to enable us know which other step to take towards
the claim of this money.

THANKS.

MR PETER BILL

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