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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: "Sgt.David Bruce" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <sgtdavidbruce@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:50:37 +0200
Subject: 11, August 2010

August 11, 2010

Dear Sir/Madam

My name is David Bruce A captain with the United Nations troop in Iraq.

Based on the United States legislative and executive decision for withdrawing troops from Iraq come next year, I have been deployed to come and work in your country's 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 have in my possession the sum of USD6.2 million. Which I got from crude oil deals here in Iraq.

I deposited this money with a Red Cross agent informing him that we are making contact for the real owner of the money. It is under my power to approve whoever comes forth for this money.

I want to invest the money in your country as soon as I am deployed to your country. I cannot move this money to the United States because I will be in Europe for about 3years, so I need someone I can trust. If you accept, I will transfer the money to you as being the beneficiary being a uniformed person I cannot have such an amount in my account. I therefore need to present someone, in this case you, as the beneficiary.

Being an intelligence officer I have undetectable ways and means of transferring the money through diplomatic means. I just need your acceptance and all is done.

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 and that is why I went to a secured car site where I can be sure that the person is real. I believe I can trust you.

At our present location we can only communicate via military communication facility which is secured, so nobody can monitor our emails, I will only reach you through email, until such a time we understand ourselves better and details have been conveyed through email communication also because our calls might be monitored,

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 7 days 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 lodged in your account and I will come over for my share. (60% for me, 40% for you) which l hope is fair for this deal..


Get back to me with your following information:

YOUR FULL NAME.........
YOUR FULL ADDRESS....................
YOUR DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER.........

Best Regards
Sgt.David Bruce
Infantry division (Iraq)

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