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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: peter James <elenilton.rodrigues@superig.com.br>
Reply-To: peter-james2012@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 01:31:26 -0700
Subject: Dearest


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Dearest,

After going through your profile and deemed it necessary to write you
immediately. My names are Peter James, Staff Sergeant is my position in the
army. I am a half British and half America. I was born in USA but we left
from USA to UK when I was three years old. I also act as a platoon
commander in the absence of the high commander in position. I am the leader
of my squad. I am a non commission officer and I work in the senior
management of the military. I am looking forward and will be happy to see
you soon as my mission end in Syria.

Let me tell you small about me, I joined the Military academy at the age of
17 years. I was in the boarding school so my parents visit me once in a
while. I didn't spend much time at home. My dad was a head teacher in
British and mum was in the medical field living in USA , my dad and my mum
involved in car accident and died during the heavy snow time,I fought in
the Gulf war in 1990 to 1991. The gulf war was fought to liberate Kuwait
from autocratic rule of the late Saddam. I had a pretty bad experience and
lost many of my colleges but am glad am still alive.

I am currently stationed in Syria for a secret mission, I have to let you
know that I am on my second mission to Syria and I have already spent 2
years here in Syria. My first mission to Syria was in 2008 My mission ended
in 2010. I Went back to the UK, I found out that my wife has passed away,
it was very sad for me because i knew i was going to spend some time with
her i missed her so much but i guess she is already gone and i have to
forget about the past and move on with life, I am here searching for
someone I can rely on and trust for something very important and top secret
to discuss with and I know you are the luck one I have to trust and tell
this top secret to and I hope you keep it secret as well.

Firstly I must solicit your confidence in this proposal this is by virtue
of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. I hope that you
will pay attention and will not disappoint me as i have been keeping this
matter in my mind but i am convinced that you are the right person to
impose to and that is why i am disclosing this to you. We had an open
combat with ISIS rebel group during our duty few days back and we were able
to overpower them and they ran away from their camp, although three of my
men were injured but not much serious. When we get into their camp we
discovered ammunition and some amounts of United States dollars and some
gold which the ISIS are using to sponsor their terrorist attacks in the
Country, We tried to set the money on fire but at last we concluded to
share the money among ourselves. We then shared the money and the Gold and
I have my own share of $1.800.000 United States Dollars, and 15 kg of the
Gold,I am able to package my own share in a box and I come back with it, I
packaged it in a box and it is in our office but I will like to use a
diplomatic agent and deliver the box to you as we have no access to bank
here.

Please, Nobody know about this money and I cannot leave it here in our
office because I will not have rest of mind and any person might come in
contact with it here and do away with it because we can leave the office
any time and any day, I am telling you this because I am convinced that you
are the right person and the first person i contacted so I want us to use
the money when I come home soon. I am soliciting for your full support and
help to receive these funds and gold to a safe custody in your country as
my legal trustee and investor of the funds in overseas. Actually, we are
not allowed to communicate with outsiders because of security reasons. Let
me know the exact time you will be online and i will meet you there so we
can chat to get to know each other and as we’ll talk more about the
money. Please do not be scared because i will like us to give each other
the time to get to know ourselves very well and see what the future will
bring. Contact me through my private email address for more details.
Peter.james2012@hotmail.com

Have a nice day.

Thanks.

Peter James

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