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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: "Captain Michael Gregory" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <cpt.michaelgregory@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 16:55:13 -0800
Subject: PLEASE CAN I TRUST YOU !

Hi dear !
 
 
Firstly, before going into details to explain my legitimate purpose of contacting you, I want to us this medium to express apology if there would be any way my unsolicited mail will affects your moral behavior or ethics of better judgment. My contact is of good faith with trail of mutual benefiting. 
          
Before proceeding further, let me tell you about my noble self, I m Captain. Michael Gregory, US soldier working under the auspices of US military and its allies, NATO for peace – keeping mission here in Syria. Based on the United States legislative and executive decision that we must evacuate for Syria, Now we are in Syria military base, but we shall redeployed back to my country US military base soonest by the grace of God.  Here our mission is to help mop up terrorist targeted states.
Under batch 13 of the combatants, we have observed lots of insurgency and nefarious act of jihads since our batch were deploy by US government with aim of strengthen and consolidating US lead strike against ISIS.
 
Am on a tight corner writing you now and i believe you will maintain the trust and confidence of what i am about to reveal to you.  On the other hand, I want to inform you that I have in my possession the sum of US $6.250.000 million, which I got from crude oil deal. My plan is to move the money with the help of Red Cross team as one of them is my good friend his name is Baris a Turkish man. There team are dispatched for treatment of wounded and casualties’ soldiers here.
 
If you can be trusted I will put you forward with formal introduction with Baris but I will not inform him the exactly the content of the luggage until he moves it out from this camp to Turkey.
Now it is under my power to approve whoever comes forth for the money.
  
I want to invest the money in a good business as soon as I am redeployed. I am an American and an intelligence officer, so I have a 100% authentic means of transferring the money to you. I just need your acceptance with a clear mind and all will be done.
Where we are now we can only communicate through our military communication facilities that are secured on monitor for any calls, otherwise I could have call to explain in details to you. I will only reach you through email, because our calls might be monitored, I just have to be sure whom I am dealing with.
 
I need someone I could deal with on trust that is why I contacted you to work with me as the receiving partner. If you accept, I will put you forward and it will be delivering to you, because as a uniformed person I cannot be parading such an amount of money, so I need to present someone as my beneficiary.
   
I am writing from a fresh email account so if you are interested, do reply to this email, if no response after 3 days I will then search for someone else.
    
Please do reply to this email, if no response after 3 days I will then search for someone else, If you are interested then let me know so we can proceed as time is very important to me. I wait for your contact details so we can go into action. In less than 7 days, the money should have been in your position and I will come over for my money immediately they redeploy me. I will give to you 30% of the sum and 70% is for me because I know that nothing goes for nothing, I hope I am been fair to you for your assistance as my receiving partner.
 
 
Get back to me urgently, if you are interested in this business deal.
 
Kind regards,
Captain Michael Gregory.
 

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