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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: george William <georgewilliam028@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 22:48:02 -0700
Subject: BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP


Good day friend,


I am GEORGE WILLIAM, an officer in the US Army presently serving in the
Military with the Peace keeping force in Kabul Afghanistan. I urgently need
your assistance in claim and safe keeping of $10 Million USD in a security
vault in London(UK).

I need your help in claim and safe keeping of two military trunk boxes
containing the sum of $10,000,000.00 (Ten Million, United States Dollars)
which was moved from Afghanistan to London, through a special arrangement
with the US RED CROSS service. I received an e-mail from the security vault
this morning to come in claim of the consignment I deposited with them
since 26-07-2012 and I have just two weeks from now to claim these funds.

I don’t have any family back in the U.S before joining the army and its
difficult for me to travel to London because the nature of my mission here
i do not have permission of my own to step out. At within the time frame in
claim of the fund with the security company in London and that’s why am
contacting you. Please assure me of your keeping this topmost secret to
protect my job with the US Monitoring and Peace-Keeping mission and kindly
furnish me with your full names, occupation, direct phone and any form of
ID.
Please reply soon on my private email: georgewilliam157@gmail.com

Regards,
General GEORGE WILLIAM

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