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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: Sgt. Brian Clark. <sgtbrianclark7777@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 01:20:04 -0400
Subject: VERY URGENT MATTER!

VERY URGENT MATTER!

Dear Beloved,

I salute you. May I ask for your permission to relay this piece of
information to you regarding a business venture, which I and two other
colleagues in the joint military service in Iraq wish to disclose to you. I
am SGT CLARK of the allied military service in Iraq. We have $12 million to
invest in your country and the funds were secured in CASH in many trunk
boxes during one of our raid operations in the area occupied by called
CHEMICAL ALI, one of the former aides to late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.

We discovered many boxes containing cash of united states dollars in the
operation and eventually, my self and two other junior officers were able to
move one of the boxes containing $12MILLION out of iraq for our future
investments through the missionary diplomatic service in Iraq. You can check
this through the enclosed news
:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm.


Sir,as military officers, we have no permission to be engaged in civil
operations, based on that reason, we decided to contact you for assistance.
This project is risk free as no body in the allied military high command
knows about the container.

Rev.Frank Wills of missionary international assisted us to move the box out
of Iraq through the missionary diplomatic service for safe keeping in a
security firm. All we need to do now is change the deposit document to your
name to enable you make the claim of the metal box containing the fund, we
have agreed to offer you %35 for your assistance.

Get back to me if you’re interested in helping us to move the fund of to your country.

Thanks,

Sgt. Brian Clark.

VERY URGENT MATTER!

Dear Beloved,

I salute you. May I ask for your permission to relay this piece of
information to you regarding a business venture, which I and two other
colleagues in the joint military service in Iraq wish to disclose to you. I
am SGT CLARK of the allied military service in Iraq. We have $12 million to
invest in your country and the funds were secured in CASH in many trunk
boxes during one of our raid operations in the area occupied by called
CHEMICAL ALI, one of the former aides to late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.

We discovered many boxes containing cash of united states dollars in the
operation and eventually, my self and two other junior officers were able to
move one of the boxes containing $12MILLION out of iraq for our future
investments through the missionary diplomatic service in Iraq. You can check
this through the enclosed news
:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm.


Sir,as military officers, we have no permission to be engaged in civil
operations, based on that reason, we decided to contact you for assistance.
This project is risk free as no body in the allied military high command
knows about the container.

Rev.Frank Wills of missionary international assisted us to move the box out
of Iraq through the missionary diplomatic service for safe keeping in a
security firm. All we need to do now is change the deposit document to your
name to enable you make the claim of the metal box containing the fund, we
have agreed to offer you %35 for your assistance.

Get back to me if you’re interested in helping us to move the fund of to your country.

Thanks,

Sgt. Brian Clark.


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