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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: "JOHN MOON JR" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <james101womack@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 12:23:26 +0900
Subject: With Due respect Sir

With Due respect Sir,

This might come to you as a surprise. However. I am John Moon. An American soldier in peace
keeping force here in Iraq. I'm serving in the military of the 1st Armored Division in Iraq, after
going through profiles yours capture my interest as I strongly believe you are in better position
to assist in this very matter as well. As you know as soldiers we've been attack severally with
bomb blasts We managed to move our funds in the tune of $10 Million USD in cash.

ID information 10 U.S.C. Section 3013, Secretary of the Army; Army Regulation 25-1, Army Information
Management; Army Regulation 380-19, Information Systems Security; E.O. 9397 (SSN).

This fund itself was discovered some years ago and we have hidden and concealed the funds waiting
for an opportunity to move the funds out. Now there will be no more time. All US troops are leaving
Iraq soonest as you can see this at B.B.C NEWS, most of us have been redeployed to Afghanistan. We
have to move the funds now or we likely to loose everything.I'm contacting you as an external body
because of our status as American soldiers on war duty. Our activities are highly limited based on
the U.S military code of conduct.

We want to move this fund to you if you can be a trust worthy person, so you preserve our own
part, share of this very fund till when we will come over to meet with you. You are legitimate to
30% of the total amount.

So If you are interested kindly send an e-mail signifying your interest including your most
confidential telephone numbers for quick communication this is necessary in the interest and the
protection of our partnership,Then we can send to you details and it is 100% risk free. Please
contact us immediately for more information.



I look forward to hear from you


Yours sincerely,

John Moon Jr

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