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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: "John R. Oxford" <usarmyb52@gmail.com>
Reply-To: amrdec@hfxgroup.org
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:45:57 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Greetings from WASHINGTON DC, USA




Greetings from WASHINGTON DC, USA

From: John
R. Oxford, Jr (COL)

   August 21, 2012

Sir,

   I am John R. Oxford, Jr. Deputy
Director, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering
Center (AMRDEC). It will interest you to know that I have nominated you as my
beneficiary to receive USD$15, 000, 000 (Fifteen Million Dollars) which I want
to keep safely in your account and or any overseas account under your
supervision.

 

My desire and purpose is to have you invest this US$15,000,000 in a
lucrative business and retain the funds until my retirement which is coming-up
in the next 5 years. Kindly indicate if you have any profitable business to
invest this fund for these 5 years; let me also know the business and its
profit.

 

Please bear in mind that this is a legitimate transaction, and the only
reason why strict privacy is advised, is that the result of restrictions of the
civil service laws here in the United States.

 

To enable us discusses the details of this venture, I will want us to schedule
a one on one WEBCAM chat through SKYPE (Please provide a SKYPE ID in a return
mail and time to meet you online today or tomorrow)

 

My SKYPE ID is: jroxfordjr

 

Thanking you for your
consideration to attend to my proposal.

 

   Respectfully,

COL. John R. Oxford, Jr

(AMRDEC)


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