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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: "Henderson" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <john.henderson1@qatar.io>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:10:07 +0100
Subject: Good day.

Hi,

I am so much delighted to inform you of my business proposal.

Well i must tell you that i really appreciate your immediate response, i have been keeping this to myself alone but i want to let you know of my business proposal through this medium which both of us is going to experience a miracle after the successful completion of this transaction for our mutual benefit.

I am a captain with the United Nations troop in Afghanistan, on war against terrorism. Based on the United States legislative and executive decision for withdrawing troops in Afghanistan to Afghanistan affected last year 2010, I have been deployed to come and work in your country on military base soonest. Our mission is to help beef up terrorist targeted states, mostly the United States and the European Union on war against terrorism.

On the other hand I want to inform you that I have in my possession the sum of (Sixteen Million Two Hundred United State Dollars only) Which I got from crude oil deal here in Afghanistan. I deposited this money with a Red Cross agent informing him that i am making contact for the real owner of the money. And it is under my power to approve whoever that comes forth for this consignment.

I am a uniform man and I cannot be parading such an amount, so I need to present someone to stand as the recipient. I am an American intelligence officer and for that good reason, I have 100% authentic means of transferring the money through diplomatic courier services to you. I just need your acceptance and all is done.

Where we are now, we can only communicate through our military communication facilities which is secured that nobody can monitor our emails, then I can explain in details to you, I only reach you through email, because our calls might be monitored but have to be sure whom I am dealing with.

I am out of our military network 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 there is no response after 3days I will then search for someone else.

I wait for your contact details so we can go on. I will give to you 30% of the sum and 70% is for me. I hope I am being fair in this business deal, get back to me with your full information:

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

Regards,

Capt.John Henderson
Afghanistan Military Base
john.henderson1@qatar.io

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