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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: "LT Stephan D M US Army Sniper" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ltstephandavidmoralis@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:30:12 +0200
Subject: ($4,000.000.00Million) D2

Sub: US ($4,000.000.00Million)
From: LT Stephan David Moralis, US Army Sniper

Sir

My name is LT Stephan David Moralis, US Army Sniper , I am serving in the military with 35th Armored Division in Iraq , as you know we are being attacked by insurgents everyday and car bombs. I managed to move part of funds belonging to Saddam Hussein's family in 2009.

The total amount is US$ 4 Million dollars ($4,000.000.00) in cash, mostly 100 dollar bills, this money has been kept somewhere outside Baghdad for some time but with the proposed troop policy by president Barrack Obama, to end the suicide bombing and make peace with Iraq militant and terrorist, I am afraid that the money may be discovered hence I want to make sure the money is in a safe hands pending the completion of our assignment here.

I am ready to compensate you with good percentage of the funds 35%, No strings attached, Iraq is a war zone, and I plan on using diplomatic means to ship the money out as military cargo to a safe hands, under diplomatic immunity cover.

I am contacting you in confidence, as I just managed to find this site to meet you urgent my heart has directed me to so you can join me in transferring this fund out of here as all arrangement for the successful delivery has been put in place, all I need from you is to receive the funds in cargo from the diplomatic shipping company, If you are interested

I will send you the full details, if you are not interested disregard this message.

I want a good partner that I can trust and that will also assist me. Can I trust you? When you receive this letter, kindly send me an e-mail through my personal email address signifying your interest in this proposal and my
email address is: stephan.davidmoralis@gmail.com


Yours sincerely,

LT Stephan David Moralis

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