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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "trunk box" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: Johnson Roy <sgtjroy3@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <sgtjohnsonroy@myway.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:32:25 +0100
Subject: Hello My Friend,



From: Sgt Johnson Roy
U.S. Military Base
Tikrit - Iraq .

Dear Sir/Madam,

My name is Sgt Johnson Roy, a United States soldier currently serving in the military of the 1st Armored Division in Iraq , our story is a very pathetic one and I apologize for taking your time. As you may know, we are being attacked by insurgents everyday and painfully, most of my colleagues have lost their lives here especially in car bombs.

Recently, while going on a regular patrol check, I and my colleague who is also a United States soldier discovered an abandoned trunk box hidden in an exit tunnel from late Saddam Hussein's family mansion. Opening the box, we discovered that it contained the sum of US$14.7 Million in cash, mostly in 100 dollar bills.

Seeing this, we moved the trunk box containing the fund totaling US$14.7 Million to our base from where we were able to ship it out of Iraq to another country in Europe under diplomatic cover as medical equipments.

Presently Iraq is engulfed in serious crisis and as this crisis intensified by the day, I and my colleague have decided to make this business proposal to you knowing that as military men, we are not allowed to run foreign accounts.

I am therefore soliciting for your co-operation to take delivery of this fund into your custody for any profitable investment that will be mutually beneficial for the 3 of us.

I will send to you the issued deposit documents of the box which was registered in my name as evidence of the deposit and change of ownership documents that will empower you and to ensure smooth movement of this fund from the overseas country where it is kept now until you are in control of it.

Please let me know if you are interested by return email and also include your full names, address and contact telephone and fax numbers to enable me call you.

I will provide you with necessary details and the arrangements to secure the deposit as soon as you indicate appreciable interest to deal.

Regards
Sgt Johnson Roy.U.S.A. Military Base , Iraq .
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