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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: Moss Frnak <moss.frnak@btinternet.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:13:54 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: WARM GREETING FROM FRANK MOSS



Hello Sir,

I know my message will come as great a shock to you because this
medium (internet) has been greatly abused, but it still remains the
fastest medium of communication. Anyway, I am a captain with the
United Nations troop in Iraq, on war against terrorism.

You may be wondering why I chose you. But someone has to be chosen.
Based on the United States newly elected president (Barak Obama) and
executive decision for withdrawing troops from Iraq starting now,
I have been deployed to go and work in
Germany military base soonest. Our mission is to help beef up
terrorist targeted states, mostly the United States and the European
Union on the war against terrorism. I want to inform you that I have
in my possession the sum of 16.2 million USD. Which I got from one of
our raiding here and I decided to take the money for my suffering
here. I deposited this money inside a box with a Red Cross agent
informing him that we are making contact for the real owner of the
Box. It is under my power to approve whosoever comes forth for this
box. I want to invest the money in your country as soon as I am
deployed for a good business that will be under your care.

Anyway you will advice me on that since I am not a business person. I
cannot move this money to the United States because I will be in
Europe for about 3years, so I need someone I could trust. If you
accept, I will transfer the Box through diplomatic arrangement to
Europe where you will be the beneficiary because I am a uniformed
personnel and I cannot be parading such an amount so I need to present
someone as the owner. I am an American and an intelligence officer at
that, so I have a 100% authentic means of transferring the money
through diplomatic courier service .


I just need your acceptance and all is done. Please if you are
interested in this transaction I will give you the complete details
you need for us to carry out this transaction successfully. I decided
to find someone that is real and not imaginary. I believe I can trust
you. Where we are now we can only communicate through our military
communication facilities which are secured so nobody can monitor our
emails, then I can explain in details to you.

I will only reach you through email, because our calls might be
monitored, I just have to be sure whom I am dealing with. If you are
interested please send me your personal mobile number so I can call
you for further enquiries when I am out of our military network. I am
writing from a fresh email account so if you are not interested do not
reply to this email and please delete this message, if no response
after 3days I will then search for someone else. I wait for your
contact details so we can go on. In less than 5days the money should
have been noted on your account and I will come over for my money. I
will give to you 35% of the sum and 65% is for me. I hope I am been
fair on this deal. Get back to me with your full information:

YOUR FULL NAME.......
YOUR FULL ADDRESS....................
A SCAN COPY OF YOUR DRIVERS LICENCE/ INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT
YOUR DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER.........
Regards,

Capt Moss frank
Email= mossfrank995@gmail.com

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