419 scam: "Lieutenant General John Lorimer"<jimsolomob@gmail.com> Urgent and Confidential

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "million united state dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- lorimergj1@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Lieutenant General John Lorimer" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <lorimergj2@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 06:40:49 -0500
Subject: Urgent and Confidential

My name is Lieutenant General John Lorimer , The Deputy Commander International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), is a NATO-led security mission in Afghanistan.

I want to apologize to you if this message offends you,please forgive me. I have a business proposal worth the sum of $7,000,000.00 (Seven million united state dollars)My commander is in possession of this sum of money here in Afghanistan, this fund was buried under the ground in a safe box andwas brought out on top of the ground by an explosion, after several inquiries to know the owner of the funds and no one came for it, since no one claim to be the owner of the funds he decided to use the 5% of funds for charity or else the U.S Government will claim it and put in U.S treasury account.

I write you because My commander ask me to help him find an honest man to assist us in this deal,I want you to help us receive these funds and save it in a safe place till we return back from our duty.He will be glad to give you 30% of the total funds. Fill in below information.

Names:

Address:

ID:

Telephone Number

Age:

Occupation:

Please,if you are willing and interested to work with us, forward in your response to my private email: ( lorimergj1@gmail.com ) for more details.

Please if you are not interested there is no need for long face we can still be friends.

Thanks

Lieutenant General John Lorimer

Deputy Commander

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