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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: "Gen. Mercy P.Kennedy." <suzyqmallory@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: <mercykennedy001@msn.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:05:51 +0000
Subject: Your interest

Dear Friend,

I really appreciate your interest to partner with me on this transaction. The most important for us now is understanding and the trust between us which will keep us strong and together as partners so we will achieve all our investment plans .

It is true we dont know each other before but i strongly believes internet and dating sites have make it easy for people around the world to become friends and partners, the most important thing is ''' Can We Trust each other?, Am offering you 30% share of the total funds while we use the rest 70% for our investments. You have to take control of all investments and will be coming to meet with you later as soon as i have vacation but please i have more interest on real estate. Kindly indicate on your next mail if you are really interested to partner with me so i will provide to you more detail informations on how we will move forward..

Note that the whole process is very simple and we must keep a low profile at all times and i want all our communications to remain on emails for now i am attaching my military identity scan copy with some of my photos to you so you will know me more, I will like to always keep in touch with you to build our relationship and partnership to be more strong, I have already develop much trust and confident in you and do believe with you our funds will be well invested and managed. I made this funds through the shipping of oil vessels with some Iraqi's to Japan and South Korea.

I have contacted you in good heart and the main reason why i have decided to entrust all this funds to you is because we serving USA military officers are not permitted to transact business while we are still on duty and when you have money source of income then the USA government will not approval retirement rewards and benefits so this is why i choose to invest with a foreigner so we can use this funds Six Million, Five Hundred Thousand us dollars for our invests with you while you take control of all investments.

For your information i have already moved the funds out of Iraq with the help of Expert Diplomatic Company for safe keeping and i packaged all the funds inside a locked box before handing it over to the company for the security of our funds inside the box and i never disclose the real content of our box to any staff of the company,i will be giving to you the digital code of our box as soon as you receives our box of funds from the company but you have to keep our transaction and all i have i told you concerning our investments plans and the handing over of our funds to you for security of our funds.As you can see on the certificate of Deposit i registered the content of our box as vaulable items so keep our transactions and all proceedures secret and confidential between us alone.You should kindly provide to me your below informations such as ;

1: Scan copy of your international passport or any of your identity copy.
2: Your contact address.
3: Your telephone number.
4: Your occupation.

As soon as I receives all your information then I will provide to you letter of approval stating you as my rightful partner to enable the company get the box release to you. Note that the releasing and handing over proceedures is very simple and easy,only what you need is to co-operate with the company and always ask me questions if there is anything you dont understand well during the handing over proceedures to you.

Best Regards,
Gen. Mercy P, Kennedy.

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