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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: " Mr James Water" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jameswater697@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 17:55:06 +0700
Subject: WORK WORK WITH ME


Greeting From James Water,

I am happy with your email and will chat with you if I have any spare time. I know this letter may come to you as a surprise but i believe it is only a day that people meet and become great friends, lover, husband, wife and great business partners. Before Proceeding, i wish to introduce myself; I am James Water, with the United Nations troop in Syria, on war against terrorism. On 11th of July I was deployed to work in Aleppo city in Syria on war against terrorism and suicide bombers. Our mission is to help beef up terrorist targeted states on the war against terrorism.

I believe you will maintain the trust and confidence of what i am about to reveal to you. On the , It happened that one of the terrorist here in sick bed gave me information about some money before his death which I recovered the sum of USD6.200,000.00 (Six Million, Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) because the terrorist keep most of their money at home for evil activities which they normally get through illegal deals on crude oil. Based on the suffering we undergo in this evil land here some of us do meet such luck. So I decided to take it as my share and will channel some portion to Orphanage homes a lot of stress here in this evil land filled with suicide bombers. I deposited this money with the RED CROSS informing them that i am making contact to move out the fund. It is now under my power to approve whoever that will come forth for the money. Moreover the Red Cross are waiting for me to come and inform them of the on how to move out the cash.

I wish to use part of this money for charity purposes , for refugees and Syria where we have currently the highest numbers of refugees displaced as a result of war. You need to visit such places. I want to invest the money to your care until I complete my assignment in the army.

Instead of allowing these terrorists to get the money and spend it on purchasing arms illegally to kill people it is better channeled to saving the world. So I need someone I could deal with on trust and that is why i contacted you. If you accept, I will put you forward as the beneficiary of the funds and transfer the money to you because as a uniformed person and I cannot be parading with such an amount so I need to present someone i can trust as the Owner/beneficiary.

I am an American and an intelligence officer and I have a 100% authentic means of transferring the money through diplomatic courier service. I just need your acceptance and all is done. I have all the needed logistics in place so you have nothing to worry about. Please if you are interested in this transaction, then, I will give to you the complete details you need for us to carry out this transaction successfully as all you need is to follow my instructions and directives.

I believe I can trust you. Where we are now, we can only communicate through emails and our military communication facilities which are secured so nobody can monitor our emails, then I can explain in details to you. I will only be able to reach you through email for now, because our calls might be monitored, if you are interested to work wit me, then let me know so we can proceed as time is very important to me. This money is my life and i am willing to give you 30% of the total sum when the money arrives under your custody. I wait for your response so we can proceed immediately. In less than 7days the money should be in your safe custody, and then i will come over to meet when we are out of the military base.

Regards,
James Water

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