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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: "John R. Oxford" <usarmyb52@gmail.com>
Reply-To: amrdec@hfxgroup.org
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 16:37:05 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Greetings from WASHINGTON DC, USA




Greetings
from WASHINGTON DC, USA

From: John R. Oxford, Jr (COL)

        November 09, 2012  

     


Sir,

   I am John R. Oxford, Jr. Deputy Director,
U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center
(AMRDEC). It will interest you to know that I have named you my beneficiary to
receive USD$15, 000, 000 (Fifteen Million Dollars) which I want to invest in
your company and or any good business under your supervision.

 

My desire
and purpose is to have you invest this US$15,000,000 in a lucrative business
and retain the funds until my retirement which is coming-up in the next 5 years.
Kindly indicate if you have any profitable business to invest this fund for
these 5 years.

 

To enable us
discusses the details of this venture, I will want us to schedule a one on one WEBCAM
chat through SKYPE (Please provide a SKYPE ID in a return mail and time to meet
you online today or tomorrow)

 

Please add
me, My SKYPE ID is: jroxfordjr

 

Thanking you in advance for your consideration to
attend to my proposal.

 

   Respectfully,

COL. John R.
Oxford, Jr

(AMRDEC)

Private
Email:  amrdec@hfxgroup.org


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