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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: "Clinton Romesha" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <clinton_romesha3@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:34:50 +0300
Subject: Urg..

Hello Dear,

I will ask you to pardon my intrusion because this is out of desperation, I have made the decision.

The link attached to this message only show one side of the story, but the other side of the story is that I lost close friends that I have until this moment find it very difficult to console their loved once that they left behind.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-award-medal-honor-afghanistan-war-hero-clinton-184314825--politics.html

The reason why the Taliban organized such a huge force to attack us was that few hours before we had intercepted a money trail that we confiscated and was still in our champ, the amount is about 9,000,000,00 Million US Dollars.

Unfortunately, they could not over power us but a lot was lost that day and because of this, myself and a couple of my team mates decided to hand the funds which are already in a box for storage until we have the confidentiality required to move out the funds.

The families of those that lost their loved ones will like nothing more than a little offering from their father’s dedication. And that is why I am contact you in confidence for your assistance to help retrieve the funds into your custody.

This operation have been carefully thought of and I can assure you it is risk free. If you accept, I will like know to have a confidential contract with you so our privacy protection and then further details will be provided to you.

The sharing of the funds will be discussed before the agreement will be signed all of these is to ensure that we all have accepted to be partners in this operation.

Thank you for taking your time to read this message and I am expecting your responds in my private Email : clinton_romsha3@yahoo.com

Regards

Staff Sgt. Clinton Romesha

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