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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: "Joseph Alford" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <barr.josephalford@eurocleareus.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:55:04 -0400
Subject: The Owner of this email address/

Barr. Joseph Alford.
DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER:+44-704-5734492
Address: 6 Park Crescent, Near Manchester Airport,
Greater Manchester,M14 5RE,England.

You are being contacted today in respect of a proposition that will be financially rewarding to you and

I. This may not be the most ideal form of introduction since we have not had the privilege of meeting

each other before now,nevertheless, I implore you to go through the content of this mail carefully before

making any decision.

I am Barrister Joseph Alford a Solicitor at law and attorney to Lt. Peter Force, a soldier serving his

second tour of duty with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)in Afghanistan. A few weeks ago,

there was a helicopter crash in Afghanistan that led to the death of nine troops from the NATO-led force

and unfortunately, my client was one of the soldiers that died in that crash, may his sole rest in peace

Amen.

After these several unsuccessful attempts, to locate any member of his family, because he grew up in

welfare homes. He once confided in me that after his tour of duty ends in Afghanistan, he will search for

his biological parents. Unfortunately, he has gone to his grave without achieving that dream hence I

contacted you. I am contacting you to assist in repatriating the money left behind by my client before it

will get confiscated by the security vault, my self and my late client have successful move the fund to

the United State of America (Atlanta Georgia) before his sudden death through a diplomatic means by the

help of a United Nation approved diplomat.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives, I seek your consent to present you as the legal

recipient of the fund on behalf of my late client, so that the sum of US$65Million will be paid to you in

cash in Atlanta Georgia where the consignment is at the moment, The funds will be split 50% both ways (

for you and I) if you accept to assist in this transaction, I have all necessary legal documents that can

be used to back up any claim we may make. All I require from you is your honest Cooperation to enable us

seeing this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will

protect you from any breach of the law of the United State.

What interests me most in contacting you is the fact that I will want to invest my own share of the money

in the United State base on your advice. Please if you are genuinely interested in the transaction, you

are here by required to send me your full name, Residential or Company address, Private Telephone and Fax

numbers where you can always be reach so that I can proceed in getting the Release Order

document/consignment PIN Code in your name, which will enable the diplomat in Atlanta Georgia release the

consignment where the total sum is to you in cash has the legal recipient.

Also, I do hereby wish to crave your indulgence for your time to visit the website as stated below

regarding the crash.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100921/ts_nm/us_afghanistan

It is of paramount importance that you keep the details of the transaction to yourself. Utmost

confidentiality and secrecy are what is needed from you in order to successfully receive the funds from

the diplomat in Atlanta Georgia.

However, If you are not capable of handling the transaction, please delete this message and do not tell

anyone about it.

I await your response urgently since we don't have much time left.

Thanks and God bless you.

Barr. Joseph Alford.



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