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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Capt. Roland Moore" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <rld0moores@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:18:38 +0100
Subject: Pls email me back ASAP

Hello,

Thank you for your attention. I am a captain with the United Nations troop in Iraq on war against terrorism. I have decided to contact you through this means because I need the assurance that you are a trustworthy and honest working individual.

Based on the United Nations legislative and executive decision to withdraw troops from Iraq, I have been deployed to come and work in your country's military base soonest. Our mission is to help beef up security in terrorist targeted states within your region. I want to confide in you that I have in my possession the sum of 16.2 Million USD which i got from crude oil deal here in Iraq. I deposited this money with a red cross agent informing him that we are making contact for the real owner of the money. It is under my power to approve whoever comes forth for this money.

It is my intention to invest the money in your country as soon as I am deployed there for a very lucrative business. Anyway you will advice me on that since I am not a business person. I cannot move this money to my country because I will be in your country for about 3 years, so I need someone I can trust and since my status as a uniformed man will not permit me to be parading such an amount. If you accept my offer, I will present you as the beneficiary and transfer the money to your country.

I am an intelligence officer, for that I have a 100% authentic means of transferring the money through the United Nations Special Delivery service. I just need your acceptance and all is done. Please if you are interested in this transaction I will give to you the complete details you need for us to carry it out successfully. Right now we can only communicate through our military communication facilities which is secured so nobody can monitor our conversation, however, I will only reach you through emails because our calls might be monitored, I just have to be sure of what I'm doing and who I am dealing with.

If you accept my offer please send me your personal mobile number so I can call you for further inquiries when I am out of our military network. I am writing from a fresh email account, if you are not interested do not reply to this email and please delete this message. If no response after 3 days I will start searching for someone else. In less than 5 working days the money should have been noted in your account and I will come over for my money. I'm willing to offer you 20% of the total sum and 80% will be for me.

Kindly write back to me as soon as possible with your full information: full names and complete address and tel number (preferably cell phone number) if you are willing to partnership with me in this project.

Regards,
Capt. Roland Moore

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