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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: ". Byrne Wallace" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <byrnewallace@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 01:33:15 -0700
Subject: CAN YOU BE TRUSTED?

Greetings from Iraq.

I know you would be surprised to read from someone relatively unknown to you.Apart from being surprised you may be skeptical and ovelook the content of this mail due to recent invasion of the internet by dishonest and fraudulent people who are nothing but scammers. But this is a different case as all I require is your sincerity and honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through. I will be able to work with you only if you are willing to guarantee your sincerity and honesty which is a basic foundation for mutual trust. However,at the same time,I must say that I am wary and cautious while sending this message to you until I convinced you will not misconstrue its importance and assure me never to go public with content of this mail.I would therefore be holding back certain information for security reasons until you have found the time to visit both the BBC and VOA news websites below to enable you have a historical insight into what I intend sharing with you,beli!
eving that it would be of interest


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm (BBC news)
http://www.voanews.com/burmese/archive/2003-04/a-2003-04-20-1-1.cfm (VOA news)

I urge you to unsure the above news sites are viewed as it will interest you to know I am one of the US army officers who were entrusted with the responsibility of counting and movement of siezed funds reported in the international news story. My name is Mrs. Byrne Wallace,a Major in the U.S. ARMY USARPAC and a member of Medical Team until the recent dis-engagement of US troops as a result of the end of the war in Iraq. I was one of the five officers questioned by military authorities as also reported in the above news story.The war has just officially ended I would like to share some information about my personal experience.

I have kept some of the boxes containing the stashed cash,waiting to be moved out of Iraq to a trusted fellow for safe-keeping. I will be vivid and very explicit in my next message but before I do so I will appreciate your sending me an email confirming that you have visited the site.The amount involved is very huge but I rather duel more on the issue of trust, honesty,reliability expected of each us and your capability to handle it at your end without compromising on confidentiality it deserve.These are very critical to the success of this venture.Getting your assurances on these listed virtues will enable me give more into and also discuss procedures in a more clarifying manner to the best of your understanding.Simply put,I have no fraudulent intentions but tha the essence of this message is strictly for our mutual benefit and nothing more.I do assure you that we both stand to gain enormously from the expected collaboration if we both exhibit total commitment desired for t!
he success of an uncommon transact


1. Confirm that the 2 above international news links have been visited/viewed.
2. Confirm that you have understood my intention and with a promise to let it remain a secret between us.
3. Provide me with yout complete names,complete address,phone number(s),your age and profession/occupation.

Please be pre-informed that all info being provided are to be duly verified and also note that compliance with the above is the only basis on which more info and details shall be provided to you. Let us communicate only through the email for now with the assurance from me that we shall speak on phone when the time comes.I will await your thoughts and compliance via email.Thanking you in anticipation of your expected cooperation

Sincerely
Mrs. Byrne Wallace

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