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Fraud Alert! - Scam Alias: Ola Peters

Artists are now common targets of advance fee fraud, also known as the Nigerian letter scam, 419 fraud, or a Nigerian money offer. In January 2007 I got one of these suspicious emails and started looking into the alias of the sender. That’s when I learned many artists are being targeted by advance fee scams.

Now I share my 419 fraud emails here for the benefit of other artists who might be targets of this scheme. I also wrote a response you can use whenever one of these emails lands in your inbox. Since using that standard reply, my scam emails have slowed down to a trickle.

From: ola peters [ola.pet.peters@gmail.com]

Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 3:19 AM

To: ola.pet.peters@gmail.com

Subject: am willing to purchase

My name is peter i'm from England,I'm willing to purchase your artwork to my friends and family in africa ,so i want you to please get back to me with present condition your location and your last price offer.I will be looking forward to reading from you asap.
Thanks
Best regards
Peter

If you've received a suspiscious email but you're not sure that it's definitely a scam, try this email reply that I wrote in March.

Have you been targeted by the Nigerian email scam? Share it with other artists on this blog or leave a comment.

Labels: fraud and scams