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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!

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From: "jlooooo22929@mail.mn" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jlooooo22929@mail.mn>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:12:30 +0100
Subject: Please are you interested?

Dear friend,
 
I am a Scottish young lady living in Syria, actually I work as a waitress in Russian restaurant in Aleppo suburb where foreigners and some high government officials do come and eat Russian meals, until the protest which started the civil war erupted on 26th January 2011 and I left to Bangkok, Thailand, during my stay in Syria I was dating an Air Force General named  Mr. Abdullah Mahmud al-Khalidi, as the civil war was progressing the General ask me to fly to Bangkok,
Thailand with 2 boxes filled with money he gave me on the day of my travel and he told me that the boxes contains $10,000,000.00 each and the notes was stamped with "Federal Reserve" red tough stamp on it and said once he arrived in he will call a certain man to come and clean it for him so that we would use it start a life together in Dubai, UAE, though I don't know where he got those money with such stamp and we planned he would defect to the opposition and join
me here in Bangkok once the war is bad on the pro-government side, and after I arrived in Bangkok and deposited it, we started planning for his possible defection to the opposition in order to join me here so that we will clean the money and use it to settle down for life in Dubai, UAE, and during my last conversation with him, he was telling me that the war is bad there and he is planning his defection soonest, and since that communication I have not heard from him again,
I tried calling his 2 numbers but it was switched off until December last year when I contacted someone in Aleppo and ask about him and she told me he was shot and killed months ago by the Rebels, and I cried for him very well because he is a good and kind hearten man I have ever seen in my life.
 
Therefore, few days ago I asked a banker here about such notes and he told me that it should be a forestry remark as was bought by the Syrian central bank foreign currency and security unit and should be cleaned by the security unit before the war started but because of the war, the General had access to the central bank and took the money away, and he said no bank should accept it now until it's cleaned properly but it's original notes from the Federal Reserve,
and that I should buy a certain chemical and he would assist me clean off the stamp before it would be of usury, and I told him I can't afford the money to buy the chemical as I am just a restaurant worker and a Syrian war returnee who has nothing and he told me to look for someone who can invest in the cleaning of the stamp on the notes, then after that I give the person percentage on the money, though I don't know anybody here in Bangkok who I can go and tell this sensitive thing,
I am very much afraid as I am a foreigner, that's the reason I contacted you because I look into your profile and see you are a sincere person. Please as the banker said we only need to buy a chemical he called SSD Supreme Solution which contains Vectrol Paste with Humine Powder to mix it together and get the chemical we require for the cleaning of the tough stamps in the notes. The money for the chemical is very expensive for me to buy, that's why I am contacting you so that you can help me to buy the chemical, and after the money is cleaned we will share it 45% 45% percent for you and me and the banker
who help us clean it will take the remaining 10% percent, the banker who will clean the notes lives here in Bangkok but he said to travel anywhere we call him. Please if you agree I will ship the consignment 2 boxes to your home address so that the banker can come and clean the notes at your house, then I will come over to your country immediately for us to share it and I take my 45% percent or if you will prefer to travel to Europe or Dubai or any other place
then the delivery man from the security house will deliver them straight to you so that within fews days or a week later the banker will arrive there and contact you to come and clean it in your hotel room then you will be giving me update once he finished, because keeping it here is of useless for me, I need someone who can invest money to clean it, I don't mind how it would be done, as far as it's cleaned and I get my percentage then that person get his/her own percentage as well Ok.
 
 
Please if you are interested to assist me get back to me, so that we can have a live chat in yahoo messenger and discuss more about this business.
 
Thanks
 
Ms. Irina.

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