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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: "Sgt.Ann Hester" <cyngos1@gmail.com>
Reply-To: stgannhester@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 17:53:19 +0100
Subject: FROM Stg Ann Hester

Hello Friend,

Greetings to you, I know my message will come to you as a surprise but
i want you to know that am contacting you for Friendship and business
partnership.I really wish to have you as my good friend/partner and
wishes to hand over my funds to you for investments on trust. I will
be sending to you my photos and my identity scan copy in my next mail.

I will like to use this opportunity to let you know about me ,I am
Sergeant Ann Hester Leigh USA Army ,single,serving in USA army ,my
contact address in USA is 74A Van Ness Avenue Westward San Jose
-California -United States of America but i was serving in USA Victory
Base Baghdad but was posted to work as Security attached with United
States of America Embassy Baghdad-Iraq.

I made total sum of 25.5Million US dollars which I have successfully
moved out of Iraq to Swift Expert Company for Safe Keeping and to be
use for investments with reliable and trusted foreign investor. The
funds is oil business money I did with some Iraqi citizens worth over
49 million US dollars, but the 25.5 million US dollars stated is my
share on the business and it’s legal. I have successfully moved the
funds out of Iraq as family valuables with help of Swift Expert
Company.

The most important thing is ''' Can We Trust each other?,Am offering
you 30% share of the total funds while we use the rest 70% for our
investments.You have to take control of all investments and will be
coming to meet with you later as soon as i have vacation but please i
have more interest on real estate.Kindly indicate on your next mail if
you are really interested to partner with me so i will provide to you
more detail information on how we will move forward..

Note that the whole process is very simple and we must keep a low
profile at all times and i want all our communications to remain on
emails for now.I look forward to your reply and co-operation.

My Regards,
Sgt.Ann Hester

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