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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: "Captain Bruce F Nickerson" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <usmarine12@yahoo.cn>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 09:36:31 +0100
Subject: response needed

Dear Friend,

Good day and compliments, I know this letter will definitely come to you as a huge surprise, but I implore you two take the hours to go through it carefully

as the decision you make will go off a Long Way to Determine my future and continued existence.Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Capt Bruce F

Nickerson, a U.S. Marine Capt. serving in the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment
Which Patrols the Anbar province, Iraq.

I am Desperately in need of assistance and I have summoned up courage to contact you. I am presently in Iraq and I found your contact particulars in an

address journal. I am seeking your Assistance to evacuate the sum of $ 10,570,000 (Ten millionFive Hundred and Seventy Thousand USD) to the States or any

safe country, as far as I can be assured that it will be safe in your care until I complete my service here.This is no chair money and
there are no dangers involved.

SOURCE OF MONEY:
Some money in various currencies was discovered and concealed in barrels with piles of weapons and ammunition at a location near One of Saddam Hussein's old

Presidential Palaces during a rescue operation and it was agreed by all party present that the money be shared amongst us.This might appear as an illegal

thing to do but I tell you what? No compensation can make up for the risks we have taken with our lives in this hell hole. The above figure was
given to me as my share and two concealer this kind of money became a problem for me

I have now found a secured way of getting the package out of Iraq for you to pick up. I do not know for how long I will remain here as I have been lucky to

have survived two suicide bomb attacks by Pure Divine intervention. This and other reasons put into consideration have Prompted me to reach-out for help. If

it might be of interest to you then Endeavour to contact me and we would work out the necessary formalities but i pray that you are discreet about this

mutually Benefiting relationship.

Contact me via my Private box: usmarine12@yahoo.cn

so that I can furnish you with more details.

Respect Fully,
Capt Bruce f Nickerson.
United States Marine Corps. Iraq.

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