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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: "David Fetterolf" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <david.fetterolfme@hotmail.ca>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 07:48:09 +0100
Subject: Re : Greetings From Afghanistan

Merhaba


Öncelikle bana bu orta kullanmak için özür dileriz benim mesaji iletiyor, ama bu benim son çare.

Ben Çavus .David Fetterolf, Calgary Kanada Ordusu, Afganistan heyeti tutarak baris parçasidir.
Ben alçakgönüllülükle bir konuda yardim talep etmek gibi olacak Bu çok acil ve ikimiz karsilikli yarar.

13 Kasim 2010 tarihinde, Taliban Isyan Afganistan'daki ana havaalanina saldirdi, ben ayricalikli
bir çocuk en kaydetmek Babasi hayat, zengin bir Altin Merchant karar verdi.
kisisel hediye olarak 100 Kilo Gold Bar, beni ödüllendirmek Ben bir satilan Afganistan Yatirimci Altin çubugu için 3.200.000 $ ödenmis Yardim ile onun Banka müdürü, bir hesap Benim için Afganistan'daki Uluslararasi banka ve Para oldu
orada yatirilir.

Ayrica nedenle neden i sizinle temas i önümüzdeki birkaç Afganistan ayrilacagim, çünkü geri dönmek için hafta Sonunda ev ve i olarak benimle NAKIT ev alamaz.
izin verilmez, bu yüzden ben bir havale etkisi gerekecektir para i çok güvenilir birisi Afganistan ayrilmadan önce ve dürüst.

Bu amaçla, ortaklik istemek için istediginiz Burada, DERHAL Afganistan bu parayi hareket bir savas bölgesi ve bir asker olarak ben ne yapabilirim sinirlamalar vardir buradan.

Banka Müdürü ile oturup var ve biz yapilandirdik basarili bir banka havalesi ulasmak için nasil bir plan ortaya
herhangi evlenmek ne de hukuk ihlali.

Ben% 35 para vermeye hazirim. Elimden geleni soru sana güvenebilir miyim? Bilgisayarinizda güvenebilirsiniz
yeterlilik ve yetenek gizli tutmak.

Eger ilgileniyorsaniz ya da tanidiginiz varsa, yetenekli böylece benim özel e-posta yoluyla bana ulasin:
david.fetterolfme@hotmail.ca öylesine i Daha fazla bilgi ve yapisal plani verebilir basariya ulasmak.
Mesajinizi bekliyoruz

Ve Tanri korusun tesekkürler

Sgt.David Fetterolf

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Hello


Firstly, let me apologize for using this medium to communicate my message, but it is my last resort.

I am Sgt.David Fetterolf, Canadian Army from Calgary, part of the peace keeping delegation to Afghanistan.
I will like to humbly request your assistance in a matter that is very urgent and of mutual benefit to both of us.

On the 13th of November,2010 when the Taliban Insurgent attacked Afghanistan main airport, i was privileged to save a boy's

life whose father, a wealthy Gold Merchant decided to reward me with 100 Kilo Gold Bar as personal GifT, which i sold to an

Afghanistan Investor who paid $3,200,000 for the Gold bar and with the Help of his Bank manager, an account was set up for me

at Afghanistan International bank and the Money was deposited there.

Furthermore and to the reason why i am contacting you is because i shall be leaving Afghanistan in next few weeks to return

home finally and i can not take home with me CASH as it is not allowed, so i will need to effect a wire transfer of the money

before i leave Afghanistan to someone very trustworthy and honest.

To this effect, I wish to solicit your partnership in moving this money out of Afghanistan IMMEDIATELY, here is a war zone

and as a soldier there are limitations to what i can do from here.

I have sat with the Bank Manager and we have structured out the plan on how to achieve a successful wire transfer without any

hitch nor breach of law.

I am prepared to give you 35% of the money. My utmost question is Can I trust you ? Can i rely on your competence and ability

to keep secret.

If you are interested and you know you are capable, contact me via my private email thus : david.fetterolfme@hotmail.ca so i

can give you further details and the structured plan to achieve success.
I look forward to your message

Thank you and God bless

Sgt.David Fetterolf

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