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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: "captbrain james" <captbrainjamesw12@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: captbrainjames_1@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:37:08 +0000
Subject: COULD YOY ASSIST PLEASE?

 


Dear Friend,

I am Captain James W. Brain of the US Marine Force on Monitoring and Peace –keeping mission in Baghdad-Iraq.

On the 29th day of January 2007, we were alerted on the sudden presence of some Terrorists camping in a suburb not too far from Karbala here in Iraq. After Immediate intervention, we captured three (3) of the Terrorists, five (5) were killed leaving twelve (12) injured.

In the process of torture they confessed being rebels for late Ayman al-Zawahiri and took us to a cave in Karbala which serves as their camp. There, we recovered several guns, bombs and other Ammunitions including some boxes and among the boxes,  two contains nuclear weapons, one filled with hard drugs(cocaine) and the other two boxes  to my amazement contains some US Dollars amounted to $4.2M after I and two of my junior intelligent officers counted them. I however instructed them to keep this in high secrecy.

I am in keen need of a “Reliable and Trustworthy” person like you who would receive, secure and protect these boxes containing the US Dollars for me on till my assignment elapses here in Iraq. I assure and promise to give you 15% of this fund, however feel free to negotiate what you wish to have as your percentage in this business.

 Please assure me of your keeping this topmost secret to protect my job with the US Monitoring and Peace-Keeping mission.

Sincere regards,
Capt. James W.Brain.

 



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