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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: "Capt.Hawkins Bronko" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <hawkiinsbbronko@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 17:00:38 -0700
Subject: URGENT MESSAGE

complement of the season, my name is Capt. Hawkins Bronko I am a military personal, I work with the United State force on peacekeeping, Cureently we are in

Kabul Afghanistan.

I plead you to read this message carefully and respond to me, I believe in good faith and I know you must be a good and honest person. I want to trust you

and dicuss my little life with you.I find your email through a trusted data base.
As I am sending you this letter I have a box with me and the content is money but do not be afraid is not a stolen money below is the sources of the money.

Yesterday During our patrol, our Intel passed a resourceful information to us about the hide out of the Talibians in Kabul, my troops confronted them to our

greatest surprise, we discovered in their hide out lots of ammunition, for a suicide plot still in planning against our base, huge amount of cash in US

dollars.

This people are terrible, how can a human being sit and plan to kill his follow human being just because of man view point, it is unbelievable.

On our way back to camp we made a stop and our team head mapped out some of the money for our well being, I can't say no, I took it for the fact that i will

be leaving the Army by next one month, I remembered how long I have suffered here and good comfort the money will provide me when I leave the Army, I took

it.

I have with me as I am sending this mail the sum of $2.8m US dollars, "Two Million Eight Hundred Thousand US dollars, my fear is that this money cannot be

safe in the camp here ,Who do i send it to, who can I trust to keep it? The only thing that came into my mind now because I have a little bullet injury but

nothing to worry about the medical department is taken care of me.

I know we have not met in person before but my spirit keep telling me you will not betray me. I want to trust you and send you this box to keep it safe, I

will locate you as soon as I recover to my fit, as I have deposited the box to a delivery company that can help me to deliver it to any distination, my

kids are still in school and can not handle this, I lost my wife years back.

like I said the delivery company will deliver the box to your door step with out any risk, is only you and I knows the content of the box, all I need is your

full name and address trust me you will not regret this. I promise to give you 30% of the money if you help me to secure this box for me until I join you.

kindly respond to me now with your details.

thanks for your cooperation.

Capt.Hawkins Bronko
hawkiinsbbronko@gmail.com

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