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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: "Elizabeth Moore" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <beatrizhopee@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 20:51:57 -0700
Subject: Hello Dear in Christ, Taliban attack on us Army.

Hello Dear in Christ, Taliban attack on us Army.

I will like to tell you something that boarders me as a woman, which I sincerely need your help, you know Afghanistan is a very difficult place to work, While we were on the rescue operation last year, we meet suspected Haqqani network, a lethal group of fighters with ties to the Taliban and al-Qaida, terrorists who were smugglers in the desert, they were passing through the desert; we gave them warning signal to stop but they keep on coming, sudden they open fire and started shooting at us and I ordered my troops to fire back at them, as such we started exchanging bullets, they were all killed, getting closer to their trucks, we found out that they are Taliban’s smugglers who were trying to smuggle drugs and cash money including propelled rocket arms into the country from Pakistan. Their Trucks was filled with huge quantity of arms it belonging to the terrorist group, and we later found out through trace that they use the money they realize from the drug trade to purchase w!
eapons to sponsor terrorist activi

We initially wanted to return the cash and drugs weapons to the Afghanistan government but we stopped because previous experiences which we returned valuable items, which was recovered from terrorist groups but wasn’t accounted for. It was embezzled by corrupt Afghan officials who use it to sponsor terrorism activities, so we senior officers decided to share the cash between ourselves.

With continue insurgent Taliban attack our camp and Afghanistan forces here is not safe keeping for cash I will like you to do me a favor by receiving and keeping on you this funds with you,so when we return back end of 2014 we can use the funds for something profitable investment outside America which European country is my choice of investing this funds. I have the sum of $9, million dollars, 500,000 dollars, were secretly sent to the family of the late Military troops who lost their lives over here during this event.

First I need your contact information, your cell phone number and as well the nearest airport to your house so that the UN fiduciary agent who move this box to his Spanish security office will open communication with you to deliver this portfolio box to you. Or you can fly into Madrid to open bank account on your name which you can access online to lodge the fund into it for online transfer.

I really do not know how long I will hold out here as I have been lucky to have survived several suicide bomb attacks by "Pure Divine Intervention" Once the funds get to you, 30% is what you will receive as the beneficiary/recipient of the consignments on my behalf so please I will like this to be a secret between us, So please do take a very good care of it when it gets to you, send me your reply through this email ( beatrizhopee@yahoo.co.jp ) immediately. When I hear from you i will love to cheat with you on Skype.

Sincerely
Elizabeth Moore

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