419 scam: "General Martin E. Dempsey" <generaldavidh@w.cn> URGENT ASSISTANCE NEEDED

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "might come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "consignment " (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "million us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- generalmartinedempsey@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "General Martin E. Dempsey" <generaldavidh@w.cn>
Reply-To: generalmartinedempsey@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 10:07:54 -0500 (EST)
Subject: URGENT ASSISTANCE NEEDED

Greetings,

Dear One Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. I Come across your profile and have Decided to get in touch with you after my prayers, to see if you can help me alleviate this problem. I can't imagine how you will feel receiving a sudden letter from a remote country far away and probably from someone you are not closely related with. But all the same, I believe we do not need to be of blood relatives before we can establish cordial relationship,This proposal might come to you as a surprise but believe me that it is a transparent business.

I am General Martin E. Dempsey of USA ,the Commanding General, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command Afghanistan.as you know that all NATO peace keeping soldier in Afghanistan is being attacked by insurgents everyday ,on the 27th august 2011 death of Al-Qaida's second-in-command, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman Multimillion mansion in Marja the northern part of Afghanistan was invaded by some troops which was led by me we discovered a certain amount of money worth over 500 million US dollars and was shared among us without turning it to the authority because we are the ones bearing the risk here.My own share of the Money is worth 50 million United States Dollars . You may wonder the reason why i have contacted you is to send send the funds across to your in the form of consignment through the Red cross for safe keeping pending the completion of my assignment here.

I am ready to compensate you with good percentage of the funds, No strings attached, just for you to help me keep the funds when i succeed in moving it out of Afghanistan.Afghanistan is a war zone, so i plan on using diplomatic means in shipping the money out as military cargo immediately the red cross take the box out for me and hand it over to a delivery company to use their diplomatic means.

Hope you will not betray this trust i have on you ? When you receive this letter, kindly send an E-mail to: generalmartinedempsey@gmail.com

by sending the required details below

FULL NAMES....................
CONTACT ADDRESS................
TELEPHONE NUMBER/FAX...........
OCCUPATION....................
AGE AND SEX................

Note This is risk free.

With regards from,

General Martin E. Dempsey

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