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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: "Lt.Col Wright Huddle Stevens" <office.email@yopmail.com>
Reply-To: <wrightstevens@yandex.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 07:22:52 -0800
Subject: Confidential Letter



--
A very good day to you dear trusted friend and I hope you go through
this confidential letter below..
Well am Lieutenant Colonel.Wright Huddle Stevens a combat instructor
and battalions commander of the 82nd Airborne Division's,1-504th
PIR,Division in the American army presently in Kandahar,Afghanistan
where am stationed for 13 months now.
Early September last year, My team and I were sent on an assignment to
trace the Taliban's hide out at the south central area of
Kandahar,Afghanistan and we travelled for over 4 hours to locate this
hideout that was shaded by the hill and we eventually ran into the
terrorist on aware and we release fire on some of them and caught some
and few were able to take an unknown root and ran off.
On our search on the hide out we discovered sophisticated weapons like
AK-47,Lee Enfeild Rifles,SVD-Dragunov Sniper Rifles,RPG-7,RPK Machine
Guns as well as a few Stinger Rocket Launchers and have been smuggled in
from Iran from our investigations, We also saw a map of their location
of where there were planning to explode and 4 bags filled with US
Dollars and it was about $2.5 Million Dollars each on the bags making it
$10 Million Dollars.
After our raiding there was done, Captain Kenneth Buff my colleague and
myself agree that some part of this money should be shared between us on
that mission before informing anybody about it since both of us were the
senior officers in the team, Well $3000,000 USD {Three Million Dollars}
was given to me as my own share, But I tell you what my friend! No
compensation can make up for the risk we have taken with our lives that
very day and as it is right now our present Government are so corrupt
and there don't care about we soldiers on the front-line here in the
Afghan region rather their use we soldiers fighting in middle east to
enrich their personal pockets, But for myself am retiring as soon as i
leave here in few weeks time after 28 years of solid service to my
nation and i can't carry this large funds back home because i will be
investigated by the FBI if i do so.
So I'm seeking your kind assistance to move the sum of {$3000,000 USD}
to you through a diplomatic delivery service or wire transfer into your
personal account and that will be done in a close by country Pakistan
that is the nearest country to where i am now in Afghanistan, But you
are going to assure me first of all that my share of {70 Percent} will
be safe in your care until I complete my service here in Afghanistan
while you have your {30 Percent} to spend, Please write me back to my
personal Email:[wrightstevens@yandex.com] If you are interested and also
be noted that this is a confidential deal and nobody must know about
this.

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