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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: Peter Stevenson <webinf30003@gmail.com>
Reply-To: pedward2018za1@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 09:19:06 +0200
Subject: xxcxx

From Mark Stevenson

Dear Good Friend.

I am happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds
transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from Indonesia.
Presently I am in Indonesia for investment projects with my own share
of the total sum. Meanwhile, I didn’t forget you’re past efforts and
attempts to assist me in transferring those funds despite that it
failed us some how. Now contact my secretary in South Africa his name
is Paul Edward

Email: pedward2018za1@gmail.com or pedward2018za2@gmail.com

Phone +27 785 937 074, Contact him and ask him to send you the total
of $920.000.00.{Nine Hundred And Twenty Thousand United States
Dollars} which I kept for your past efforts and attempts to assist me
in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. So
feel free and get in touched with my Secretary Paul Edward and
instruct him where/how to send the amount to you. Please do let me
know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all
the suffer ness at that time. Do send to Paul Edward, your contact
details.
Your Full Names…...........................................
You’re Address…..............................................
Cell Phone Number…........................................
Your occupation................................................
Your Age….....................................................
To enable him submit your details to my paying bank the Ned Bank South
Africa to wire your compensation money to your nominated bank account
information you shall send to Paul Edward/Bank Check or they can send
to you an authorized bank atm master card to your address for you to
withdraw the money from any bank atm machine in your country.
In the moment, I am very busy here because of the investment projects
which me and the new partner are having at hand, finally, remember
that I had forwarded instruction to my secretary on your behalf to
receive that money, so feel free to get in touch with Paul Edward he
will send the amount to you with out any delay.
Thanks and God bless you.
Mark Stevenson.

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