419 scam: Daniel Peters <engrdanepeters4@desssws.ae.tn> Your Urgent Attention Needed.

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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:
- "hundred thousand us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal trying to scam you - arrests of online criminals are rare)
- "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.
- engrdanepeters@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Daniel Peters <engrdanepeters4@desssws.ae.tn>
Reply-To: <engrdanpeters@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 22:47:09 +0000
Subject: Your Urgent Attention Needed.

From: Mr. Daniel Peters
Chairman NNPC Contract Committee.
Nigerian National Petroleum Corp.
Falomo - Victoria Island Lagos.

Hello Dear,

I am an Accountant and the Chairman of the Tender Board Committee which awards contract in the Department of the Petroleum Resources of Nigeria. I sent you this email to inform you of our plan to transfer the sum of US$8.6Million (Eight Million, Six Hundred Thousand US Dollars only) to your account. I want you to know that these funds originated from an Over-invoiced contract sum which was awarded to a foreign firm. I and my three (3) other colleagues in the Tender Board purposely inflated the actual cost of the contract to the tune of US$8.6 Million. However, the original contractor has fully executed the contract, the project commissioned and the contractor paid his actual contract worth, leaving behind the over-invoiced sum. So, it is based on this that we now want you/your company
to come forward to stand in and claim this sum on our behalf.

We are Civil Servants, and we are not allowed to operate foreign account while still in office, so you are to act as one who had executed a contract worth the sum of US$8.6 Million for my Department and you now want your payment settled. Remarkably, this deal is 100% risk free. We are perfectly in charge and had worked out modalities that would guarantee a hitch free transfer of this fund to your account fully free of any liens or encumbrances and are clean, clear and non-criminal origin. We have also mapped out 35% of the total sum for you for your help and assistance while the remaining is for me and my colleagues. If you are interested in this proposal and you are a trustworthy person who would not sit on this money if it is transferred into your account, kindly get back to me via this email: engrdanepeters@gmail.com and send me, your phone number.

Please note that this transaction must be kept absolutely confidential till we have concluded it. NOTE: After a successful transfer, 35% for you, and 65% for us. We will also visit you immediately we conclude this transaction to collect and invest our shares of the total sum into any viable business you may advise us in your country. Nevertheless, I got your email contact information through my search on the internet for a reliable person to handle this transaction with us. Thank you as we look forward to your anticipated co-operation.

Yours faithfully,
Daniel Peters

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