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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: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:36:40 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Your Immediate Attention Requested! From Capt. B.J Grass (U.S.M.C)


I am Captain Bentley John Grass of the U.S. Marine Force on Monitoring and International Peace-Keeping Mission in Baghdad - Iraq.
On the 26Th day of June 2003 we were alerted on the sudden presence of some terrorists camping in a surburb not too far from Karbala here in Iraq.
After immediate intervention we captured three 3 of the Terrorists twenty-six 26 were killed leaving seven 7 injured.
In the process of torture they confessed being militants/rebels for late Ayman AL-Zawahiri and took us to a cave in Karbala which served as their camp.
Here we recovered several guns, bombs and other Ammunitions including some boxes among which two contains suspected nuclear weapons one filled with hard drugs cocaine and the other four to my amazement contain Raw Gold, some huge amount of US Dollars bills amounting to USD $50Million after I and
four of my junior intelligent officers move them out into Africa thru diplomatic means for save keep.
I however used my position and with a help of an international diplomat/associate move the box consignment that contain the cash amount of USD$50Million out to a Diplomatic Finance Trust Company located in Abidjan, depending when we find a reliable and trusted person who can travel on our behalf
to the location for claim in a short notice for security reasons.
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 us up on till our assignment elapses here in Iraq.
I assure and promise to give you 25% of this fund however feel free to negotiate what you wish to have as your percentage in this business transaction.
Further details shall be given to you as soon as you acknowledge the receipt of this mail and your willingness to proceed with us on these respect.

Best Regards,

Capt. Bentley J Grass.
U.S. Marine Corp.
Habbaniyah, Iraq.

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PLEASE TAKE NOTE: THIS IS AN URGENT TOP U.S. MILITARY SECRET INFORMATION PLEASE DON'T KINDLY GIVE IT OUT IF YOU ARE NOT JUST INTERESTED KINDLY LET ME KNOW IMMEDIATELY
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