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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: "FROM: DR. PETER McWEALTH." <petermcwealth076@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:58:49 -0300 (BRT)
Subject: DEAR BENEFICIARY URGENT ATTENTION




--
FROM: DR. PETER McWEALTH.
DIRECTOR: WORLD FUND DISCOVERY MANAGEMENT AND PAYMENT BUREAU.
This letter is from World Fund Discovery Management And Payment Bureau
newly invented by the World Financial Service Authority United States Of
America/United Kingdom.
This body was set up to discover outstanding funds owed to Governments or
Individuals all over the world through Contract Payment, Inheritance or
Lottery Winning Prize Awards.

It may interest you to know that we discovered an unclaimed sum of money
in favour of your email and a mandate has been given to this body so that
this fund be paid to you without any further delay.

Note that a special payment arrangement has been made to deliver this fund
to you through diplomatic means of payment or Alternatively, come in
person to any of our payment Offices in Europe, America or Asia.

You are hereby advised to urgently provide this office with all your
contact details which include:

(1) Your Full Name:_____________________
(2) Residential Address:________________
(3) Phone, Fax and Cell Phone number:___
(4) Profession, Age and Marital Status:__
(5) Company/Business Name:_______________
(6)Current private email address:________

You are advised to contact us immediately with the above requested
information for further details
Thanks.
Yours Truly,
Dr. Peter McWealth.





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