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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Patrick Williams" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <patrickwilliamss@qq.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 21:48:30 -0400
Subject: My Dear Friend

 
 
My dear Friend,
 
Greetings to you! I have taken my time to compose this email for your understanding, please ready very careful and reply.
I am a captain with the United Nations troop in Kabul Afghanistan, on war against terrorism. Based on the United States legislative and executive decision for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan come this year April 2014, I will work hard to  be deployed to come and work in your country on military base soonest. Our mission is to help beef up terrorist targeted states, mostly on the war against terrorism and I will need a house  for myself and good investment and an investor that is why am contacting you 
 
On the other hand I want to inform you that I have in my possession the sum of (45.5 million US.D) Which I recovered from some Taliban terrorist groups  hideout here in Afghanistan at Mazar-i-Sharif, the fourth largest city and is located in northern Afghanistan. I deposited this money with UN Red Cross in Kabul  Afghanistan. Our Military base agent informing him that we are making contact for the real owner of the money. And It is under my power to approve whoever that comes forth for this consignment.
I want to invest the money in your country as soon as our mission ends, come April 2014 for a good business, anyway you will advice me on that since I am not a business person. so I need someone I can trust. If you accepted I will smuggle to transfer the money to Europe or anywhere of your choice where you will receive the fund.
I am a uniformed person and I cannot be parading such an amount, so I need to present someone to stand as the recipient. I am an American and an intelligence officer and for this reason, I have 100% authentic means of transferring the money through diplomatic courier service. I just need your acceptance and all is done.
Please if you are interested in this transaction I will give to you the complete details that you need for us to carry out this transaction successfully, I decided to find someone that is for real and not imaginary and that is why I went to a secured web site, where I can be sure that the person am contacting is real. I believe I can trust you. Where we are now we can only communicate through our military communication facilities which is secured so nobody can monitor our emails, then I can explain in details to you, I will only communicate with through email, because our calls might be monitored.
If you are interested please send me your personal mobile number so I can call you for further Inquiry whenever I am out of our military network range am writing from a fresh email account so if you are not interested do not reply to this email and please delete this message, if not response after 3days I will then search for someone else.
 
 
I wait for your contact details so we can go on. I will give to you 20% of the sum and 70% is for me and 10% for miscellaneous expenses required. I hope I am been fair on this deal.
Get back to me with your full information:
YOUR FULL NAME.........
YOUR FULL ADDRESS.........
YOUR DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER........
Regards,
Captain Patrick Williams
UN US ARMY
Kabul Afghanistan
*******************************************Disclaimer******************************************************
The information contained in this message is Confidential and Proprietary information and is intended only for the use of the recipient(s) above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, he/she is hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication or any of its content is strictly prohibited. In such case, please advise the sender immediately and delete it from your system. Further acknowledge that any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and no binding nature of the message shall be implied or assumed unless the sender does so expressly with due authority of UN Army  Services
 



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