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

Fraud email example:

From: JOHN ENGLAND <carolina@lobarnechea.cl>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 05:22:57 -0400 (CLT)
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL



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Attn: Letter from JOHN ENGLAND .

With Due respect Sir/ Madam,

This might come to you as a surprise. However. I am John England . An
American soldier in peace keeping force here in Iraq.

I'm serving in the military of the 1st Armored Division in Iraq, after going
through your profiles yours capture my interest as I strongly believe you
are in the better position to assist in this very matter as well.

As you know as solders we been attack severally with bomb blast We managed
to move our funds in the tune of $ 10 Million USD in cash.

ID information 10 U.S.C. Section 3013, Secretary of the Army; Army
Regulation 25-1, Army Information Management; Army Regulation 380-19,
Information Systems Security; E.O. 9397 (SSN).

This fund itself was discovered some years ago and we have hidden and
concealed the funds waiting for an opportunity to move the funds out. Now
there will be no more time. All US troops are leaving Iraq you see this at
B.B.C NEWS, most of us have been redeployed to Afghanistan. We have to move
the funds now or we likely to loose everything.

I'm contacting you as an external body because of our status as American
soldiers on war duty. Our activities are highly limited based on the U.S
military code of conduct.

We want to move this fund to you if you can be trust worthy person, so you
preserved our own part share of this very fund till when we will comes over
to meet with you. You are legitimate to 30% of the total amount.

So If you are interested kindly send an e-mail signifying your interest
including your most confidential telephone numbers for quick communication
this is necessary in the interest and the protection of our partnership,

Then we can send to you details and it is 100% risk free. Please contact us
immediately for more information.


I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO HEAR FROM YOU

Sincerely

JOHN ENGLAND

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