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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: "Major Peggy Wooten" <s.team70@rocketmail.com>
Reply-To: peggiewooten@careceo.com
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 09:17:15 +0200
Subject: Greetings from Ms. Wooten

Greetings from Ms. Wooten

I am contacting you through email not only because of its reliability for
rapid exchange of messages (quick delivery and reply) but also because it
has been proven to be very secure more than postal and fax
messages.Moreover I chose using the email for reason of assured privacy
and its suitability for recall of content.So coming via the internet
medium,I hope that the content of this mail is not miscontrued to be from
one among those of the invasion of the internet world by dishonest people
who are nothing but scammers.But this is a different case which can be
proven in due course. However I will remain wary and cautious while
sending this message to you until I an convinced you quite understand its
importance and get this treated with urgent attention and confidentiality
it deserves. I am holding back specifics for security reasons until you
revert with a confirmation of a visit to or a view of the news websites
below which are meant to give historical background and insight about the
subject matter.

http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/184530.html (PRESSTV)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm (BBC)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/25/60II/main690763.shtml (CBS NEWS)
http://www.voanews.com/burmese/archive/2003-04/a-2003-04-20-1-1.cfm (VOA
NEWS)

Although the funds in question have been of public knowledge long before
now but what remains secret to public is the identity of those officers
that were involved in counting and protection of the recovered funds by US
army.It will interest you to know that I am one of the US army officers
who were entrusted with the responsibility of counting and moving the
seized funds reported in the news stories. I was one of the five officers
questioned by military authorities as also reported in the above news
story. All I can say for now is that I was a Major in the U.S. Army until
the recent dis-engagement from Iraq as a result of the end of the war. The
American/Iraq war has officially ended but I will only give further
details about our intended partnership when you assure me never to go
public with message content.I will like to share more information about my
personal involvement that led to my keeping aside a big stash of cash.The
cash is waiting to be moved out of Iraq to a trusted fellow for
safe-keeping.If you are such a fellow who can keep a secret and be sincere
I want to ship 3 boxes containing huge sum of cash (over $10m) to you. I
will rather duel more on the issue of trust, honesty,reliability and your
capability to handle it at your end without compromising on
confidentiality it deserve instead of mentioning the real amount to be
shipped. Simply put,I have no fraudulent intentions towards you and that
the essence of this message is strictly for our mutual benefit and nothing
more.I do assure you that we both stand to gain enormously from an
uncommon transaction of this nature. I will be vivid and explicit with
details in my next message to allow you get more facts but before I do so
I will appreciate your giving me the needed info by doing the followings :

1. Confirm if any / all 4 international news links above have been
visited/viewed successfully.
2. Confirm your understanding of my intention to send the looted funds to
you.
3. Promise to let our partneship remain a secret between us.
4. Provide me with your complete names,complete physical address,phone
number(s),your age and profession/occupation.(Kindly note that your
information will never be shared or used at a public level and will be
treated in the strictest confidence).

Please note that time is very of essence since there is a limit to how
long to wait.All requested 1-4 above needs to be complied with to help me
take immediate and final decisions which will also assist in dispatch of
the boxes to you. While waiting to get your response I plead once again
that you share this proposal on mutual collaboration with no one. Please
send your response to my PRIVATE email address as follows :
peggiewooten@careceo.com

Sincerely
Maj. Peggie Wooten
Email: peggiewooten@careceo.com

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