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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: "SGT. Mustafa Kemal" <sgt_m_kemal@r7.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:38:23 +0400 (MSK)
Subject: I STRONGLY SOLICIT YOUR PARTNERSHIP.


Hello,

I know you would be surprised to read from someone relatively unknown to
you before, not under minding the medium this email came to you; this is
for security and privacy purposes, forgive me for reaching you through
this secured server"postmaster" set up personally by me.

I'm SGT Mustafa Kemal, a member of NATO – ISAF troop presently in
Afghanistan. I would like to share some highly personal classified
information about my personal experience and role which I played in the
pursuit of my career serving under the NATO – ISAF which was at the
fore-front of the war in Iraq now stationed in Afghanistan – Kandahar.
Though, I would like to hold back certain information for security reasons
for now until you have find the time to visit the BBC websites stated
below to enable you have insight as to what I'm intending to share with
you, believing that it would be of your desired interest one way or the
other.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm

I will implore you to get back to me after you have visited the above link
to enable us discuss in details. I must say that I'm very uncomfortable
sending this message to you without knowing truly if you would
misunderstand the importance and decides to go public.

Send me an email confirming you have visited the site and that you
understand my intentions and how to proceed ahead? I will await your
thoughts.

SGT. Mustafa Kemal



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