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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: SGT.JAMES CLAYTON JR <jamesclaytonjr2007@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 00:50:42 -0000
Subject: SGT.JAMES CLAYTON(Baghdad in Iraq)!!!!!

Compliment,

I hope my email meets you well. My name is Sgt .James Clayton jr(American soldier). I am in the
Engineering military unit here in Baghdad in Iraq , with Oesophageal cancer which has defiled all forms of
medical treatment, and right now I have only about a few weeks/months to live, according to medical
experts. My late 2 colleagues who died last week in a bomb blast and I found a huge sum of $25 Million
USD in Baghdad neighbourhood
( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm) that we have successfully moved out of the
country to Spain via a diplomatic courier service. I am contacting you because i want you to help with
claiming of this merchandise and help me distribute them to charity organizations and homeless people.

I feel distributing the funds would be a way to appease the LORD and also want God to be merciful to
me and my late friends and also accept our souls ,because we have killed so many in the war, but we
where only serving our country. I have decided to give this sum 0f $25 Million USD to charity
organizations, as I want this to be one of the last good deeds I do on earth.

I am single, as my family died in a car accident years ago, and i vowed on my son and wife grave never
to get married, so then i joined the force. I guess it is time for me to go join my family as i see my beautiful
wife and my son in my dreams.

I will want you to help me collect this consignment and dispatched it to charity organizations like i have
said earlier. I have set aside 30% for you and your time. The most important thing is that can I TRUST
you Once the funds get to you?, and also would you distribute the rest 70% to charity organizations?.
Your own duty is to contact the DIPLOMATIC COURIER SERVICE on how the consignment can be
released and sent down to your home address and also find a safe place where the funds can be kept.
If you are interested I will furnish you with more details,so you are to send me all your full informations
such as telephone,mobile,fax,country,occupation e.t.c.

But the whole process is simple and we must keep a low profile at all times because if the authorities are
aware of this funds, it would be seized and used for purchasing ammunitions and irrelevant accessories,
whereby we have so many sick, homeless kids dying with hunger..

I am awaiting your urgent response on my private email address, jamesclayton@sify.com


IN GOD WE TRUST!!!!
Regards.

SGT .JAMES CLAYTON

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