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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: "Capt. Fernando Millard" <captain.fernandomillard@airsoftmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:38:43 +0100 (CET)
Subject: YOUR URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED

 

Attn: Please,

I am Captain Fernando Millard, an Intelligence officer in Iraq on a Joint Monitoring and Peace keeping mission in Baghdad Iraq. On the 15th day of November 2009, we were alerted on the sudden presence of some Shi'a militias camping in a suburb not too far from kirkuk here in Iraq. In the resulting gun battle with them, twenty six were killed and three were seriously injured the remaining militias ran away. Unfortunately, I lost some of my men.

In the process of interrogating the injured insurgents, they confessed being rebels for Muqtada al-Sadr and took us to a cave in Karbala where we recovered a 20 feet container containing Ammunition and cash in United States Currency. We found out that the funds discovered in the cave totals US$24,700,000 (Twenty Four Million Seven Hundred Thousand US Dollars) and I have been able successfully moved the fund in a trustworthy and certified security company (PRUDENTIAL TRUST SECURITY COMPANY) while looking for an honest and dependable person that will help me receive the fund until I am redeployed from Iraq.

As serving Military officer, I cannot be parading with such amount of cash hence the need to get honest person that will receive the fund on my behalf until our assignment in Iraq is concluded which will take me few months. Where we are now in Iraq, we can only communicate through our military communication facilities and all calls are monitored and so the best way of communicating will be via email.

I will not fail to inform you that this transaction is risk free; therefore you have no reason to entertain any atom of fear. For your efforts in this transaction I am ready to share the fund with you in the ratio of 60:40, you are entitle to benefit 40% of the total fund while the remaining 60% will be kept for me until my arrival in your country.

It is of very important that you keep the details of the transaction to yourself. Maximum confidentiality and secrecy are what is needed from you in order to successfully complete this transaction.

However, if you are not interested, do not reply and please delete this message but if you are interested simply confirm me the information below and will put you to our contact.

Full Name:
Current Address:
Direct Mobile Number:

Make sure you reply me this mail via email address: captainfernandomillard@airsoftmail.com


Regards

Captain Fernando Millard
E-mail Address: captainfernandomillard@airsoftmail.com

 

  

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