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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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Fraud email example:

From: Captain Palmer Brown <palmerbrown1@latinmail.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 13:52:57 +0000
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION NEEDED



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Hello,

I am Captain Palmer Brown, a commanding officer of the 3rd Battalion
army with the United States and Britain Coalition Force in Afghanistan.
Due the decision by our Government to withdraw our troops from
Afghanistan. I have decided to quit the army.

I am considering a possibility of doing business with you, which is
why I'm reaching out to you. On the other hand I want to inform you that
I have in my possession the sum of $7.2million (US Dollars) which I
recovered during one of our raids on terrorists here in Afghanistan,
possibly the funds were left behind by the terrorists group. I do not
intend handing this money over to the Government, and I have been able
to move the money out of war zone with the help of Red Cross
organization to a security company somewhere safe and secured.

Please if you are interested in this transaction I will give to you
the complete details you need for us to carry out this transaction
successfully. I decided to find someone that is real and not imaginary.
I believe I can trust you. Where we are now we can only communicate
through our military communication facilities which are not secured.
Nobody should be able monitor our discussions. I will only reach you
through emails, because our calls might be monitored, I just have to be
sure whom I am dealing with.

Also I want you to know that am revealing this deal to you with
belief that you will never let me down in this business, you are the
first and the only person that I am contacting for this deal, so please
reply urgently so that I will inform you on the next step to take.

If you are interested please reply me immediately so I can contact you
for further details. I am doing this with trust, you should understand
and you should know that as a trained military expert I will always play
safe in case you are the bad type, but I pray you are not. $7.2million
is a lot of money, I couldn't hesitate but reveal to you the details due
to the limited time frame.

I'm patiently waiting for your contact details so we would proceed
as soon as possible. In less than 14 days the money should be in your
care. You will be rewarded with 30% of the total sum and 70% would be
mine. I hope I am being fair on this deal?

I wish you all the best of luck. waiting to hear from you urgently.
send all replies to ; [palmer-brown@live.com]

Thank You.

Captain Palmer Brown.

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