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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: General Richard Shirreff <majorgeneral.richardshirreff6@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: general.shirreffs@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 11:22:58 +0100 (CET)
Subject: From Major General Richard Shirreff


Dear Friend,

Complement of the day,

I am Major General Richard Shirreff, a British military commander in Basra Iraq.

Listen attentively, this information I am disclosing to you is highly confidential and if you can be well exam yourself and know you are not capable enough to handle the deal you should forgive me and delete this message from your email list.

The deal I had at hand to execute with you is this: during our operations in Basra Iraq, our troop discovered some Millions United States Dollars in 31 sealed containers and the containers has been handed over to United States military for the safekeeping. Then after some few days later, we still discovered one iron save which contained $25Million United States Dollars and the money is well packaged in side the save but I decided to safeguard the save in Dilemma Security Guards who based here in Iraq in other to make use of the money to establishing a good business when we pull out from Iraq but it's not yet time were our troops will pull out and if the save keep on staying with the Dilemma Security Guards it may get loss so that is why I am contacting you to inquire your possibility of executing the deal with me by receiving the iron save over there in your base and lodge the money in your bank account for onward investment.

Therefore, if you are interested to execute the deal with me you should indicate your interest fully to enable me order the Dilemma Security Guards to deliver the save to your base through their diplomatic courier services.

Note: This deal is 100% risk free hence I am concerned because the save is well deposited in the Dilemma Security Guards as a property of a foreigner whom based here in Iraq before the outbrake war and for the security reason of the money inside the save, I told them it is the foreigner family belongings to avoid the officials of Dilemma Security Guards making away with the money. So you will act as the foreigner whom based here in Iraq before the outbrake war.

For more information of what I am telling you, you should click on the three below website to read the news by yourself.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6212599.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm

http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:czRTsCjST7EJ:news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1267901,00.html+securities+guard+in+iraq&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5

I wait for your immediate response as soon as you received this message in good faith.

Thank you once again for your co-operation

Major General Richard Shirreff
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Cher ami,

Je suis le général major Richard Shirreff, un commandant de la force britannique en Iraq à Basra.

Je te demande de suivre attentivement, car cette information je porte à ta connaissance est strictement confidentielle. C’est pourquoi après y avoir pris connaissance, si tu constates que tu n’est pas à l’hauteur, tu veuilles m’excuser et supprimer ce message de ta boite.

Voici l’affaire en question ;

Pendant nos opérations à Basra en Iraq, mes hommes ont découvert des millions de dollars américains dans des conteneurs saisi par la suite par les troupes militaires américains ainsi quelques jours plus tard, nous avions découvert un coffre-fort contenant vingt-cinq millions de dollars américains bien emballés dans coffre-fort. mais j’ai décidé de le protéger dans une des sociétés de gardiennage basé ici en Iraq de sorte à pouvoir l’utiliser plus tard pour l’opération d’une affaire, évidemment lorsque nous allons quitté l’Iraq. En effet, la société ne sachant pas que le contenu serait une somme de ce genre surveille le coffre sans beaucoup trop d’abnégation. Eventuellement je constate que le coffre peut se perdre si je le laisse ici.

Alors pour sécuriser cette importante somme, je sollicite ton sincère assistance pour qu’ensemble on puisse opérer, c’est-à-dire m’aider pour qu’ensemble on puisse retirer l’argent de la société, le sécuriser dans un lieu sûr où nous pouvons l’utiliser pour opérer des affaires.

Par conséquent, si tu es capable de m’aider il faudrait me répondre rapidement.
Ainsi j’ordonnerai la société pour que à travers son service diplomatique, elle mette le coffre à notre disposition.

Pour plus d’information de ce que je te dis, se référer au site sous Internet mentionné et lire toutes les informations, ça te permettre de savoir que ce qui se passe est une réalité.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6212599.stm

http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:czRTsCjST7EJ:news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1267901,00.html+securities+guard+in+iraq&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5

J’attends ta réponse dans les plus brefs délais.

Merci encore une fois pour ta bonne compréhension .

Général major Richard Shirreff



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