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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 Alan Edward <office009@34866.onmicrosoft.com>
Reply-To: <major.a.edward@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:01:40 +0530
Subject: GOOD DAY.

Compliment of the day,
Please accept my sincere apology if my mail does not meet your business or personal

ethics. I am in need of your assistance. My name is Major Alan Edward. I was a US

military officer attached with the Engineering Unit in Iraq for the United States

Army, my colleague and I, have the sum of US$20Million dollars that we have to move

out of the country Iraq to a security and trust company somewhere I will not like to

mention in this mail for security reasons.

My co-officers and I need a good partner, someone we can trust to actualize this

venture. The money is from Oil proceeds and legal. But we are moving it through

Diplomatic Security means to where you may want to pick or claim it directly in a

safe and secured location using Diplomatic Courier Services.

By the way can we trust you? Once the funds get to you, you take your 35%out of the

total sum for participation in the transaction and while will keep our own 65%. Your

own part of this deal is to help claim and secure the funds after deducting your 35%

share.

If you are interested please do let me know so that I will furnish you with more

details: major.a.edward@gmail.com

awaiting your urgent response,

Best regards,
Major Alan Edward

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