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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: "Major General Herbert Raymond McMaster" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mj.genherbertmcmaster@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 14:39:15 -0800
Subject: MAY I TRUST YOU

Greetings! Sir/Madam,

I want to trust you with this confidential proposal. Before I continue, let me
introduce myself to you, I am Major General Herbert Raymond McMaster the Deputy
Commander of the Special force Army in Afghanistan, on war against terrorism. I was
working with General Stanley McChrystal, the former commander of U.S and NATO forces
in Afghanistan before he was replaced last June by another General David Petraeus. I am
serving currently in a Taliban territory; a remote Village in Bamyan province to the
bustling capital Kabul (CBC's Doc Zone).

Because of series of killing of United States troops in Afghanistan, especially the
shutdown of US helicopter that killed 30 American soldiers on the 5th of August
2011 and the five American soldiers who were killed by a bomb in Afghanistan on
Thursday. After this series of killing I and my colleague decided to share the
money we recovered on our raids on terrorist’s camp. I have now in my possession
the sum of US$13 Million (Thirteen million US Dollars).

I have carefully packaged the money in 2 boxes, I have made contact with a friend
who is working with the RED CROSS office here in Kabul. He will assist me move the
consignment out of the trouble area. Arrangement has been fully made to move out
the Consignment as a diplomatic luggage, I have already told him that the luggage
belongs to one of our soldier that died during the attack but before giving up he
told me to make sure the luggage get to his family successfully, for safe keep and
to make contacts for its proper use.

The only telephone access we have here is radio message which is for our general
use and is being monitored; therefore all communication will be via email until
we finish our assignment. Please keep it to yourself even if you are not interested,
thank God for President Barrack Obama whose keen interest is to call us back home soon.

see the site below for more information

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_%282001%E2%80%93present%29
http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/
http://www.theguardian.com/world/afghanistan
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/afghanistan-war-blog/

If you can be trusted will explain further when i get a response from you.

Respectfully,
Major General Herbert Raymond McMaster
United States Military Army. Afghanistan.

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