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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: "CAPT.ALLEN" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <captglennon.allen@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 01:16:39 +0100
Subject: PRAY FOR US ARMY

Dear,

Fighting Insurgents is not an easy task in the Military era, because they move around with innocent citizens of the country. However, it takes extra knowledge, teamwork and vital information to do that as individuals are sponsoring the terrorists, thereby providing them with Arms and other deadly sophisticated weapons alongside huge amounts of money for major operation in their targeted area. My name is CAPT.GLENNON ALLEN. I am working with US ARMY currently serving on International NATO mission Tripoli Libya.
In one of our major counter terrorism operations/attack here in Tripoli, We busted the hideout of a notorious drug cartel. We engaged them in a very fierce gun duel and were able to overpower and kill the drug lords who were involved in smuggling of cocaine and heroin from Mexico. We recovered a huge sum of money from them which we decided to keep to ourselves.

At the moment, I am in possession of $3.5M USD and I would want to transfer the money out of this place the only thing I want you to do is to receive the money and keep it safe
So that when I come out in two months time, I will come for it. Is rest assured that I will compensate you adequately; I will give you 30% of the total sum. Please don't betray the trust I have in you.

If you are willing to receive the money, I will facilitate the transfer immediately.
According to the UN Peace keeping mission Law, it states that anything recovered from peace keeping mission belongs to the Armed forces of the country that went for the operation.
Therefore, we have shared the money among ourselves. I cannot keep such amount of money here because we are not stable at a point and I cannot abandon my duty post as a result of trying to secure the money here.
I had to arrange with a Diplomat assigned to Red Cross. And I will pay all for the delivery charges, after making the payment I will send you the copy of the payment receipt for confirmation. I have just few months left to leave here and I have to make swift arrangement to move the funds out of this country.
The question now is who will be in charge of the money and proceed for the investment plans.
This is exactly why I need your help. I want to guarantee you that you will not stand any risk in this as I have mapped out the strategies to have this box moved out of here safely through diplomatic means.

You have to keep everything confidential till you receive the fund as a consignment, I'll leave this country soon as my holiday is fast approaching Please get back to me now so that I will know the way forward.

Thanks,

Allen.

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