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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.Williams <ga@ewfrwe.gq>
Reply-To: <capt.williams.swenson13@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 16:55:39 -0700
Subject: THIS NEED AN URGENT ATTENTION PLEASE

Dear friend,

I am Capt.Williams Swenson, an officer in the USA Army and also a West Point Graduate presently serving in the Military with the 82nd Air Borne Division Peace keeping force. I am on the move to Afghanistan and i really need your help in assisting me with the safe keeping of two military trunk boxes. I hope you can be trusted?


If you can be trusted, I will explain further when i get a response from you.Nevertheless, reconfirm the following to me as follows and Please ensure to reply via my private e-mail address


There is no risk factor in this transaction and to the best of my knowledge; it is 100% free of risk because if there should be anything to afraid of, I should have been the one to fear, since I am still an active soldier of the United States. And rist may come up should you refuse to keep this 100% confidential as I have instructed because we do not know who to trust. My father use to tell me something, he says, if you want to keep anything secret,keep it to yourself.



As matured in international business with wealth of experience, I suppose we put in proper security in line of executing this project and on that note is suggest you register with a reputable Non-Governmental Organization"(NGO), which I will direct you to for reason of security and success in the delivery of the boxes to your
address. By doing so, this project will be concluded under the platform of the NGO, which will help make the process absolutely free of risk because the country security personnel are NOT stupid to gamble with their intelligence while trying to deliver boxes containing an amount as huge as seventy Million Dollars ($70M)
unprotected. Although money is good but I cannot advice you wrongly because of the money-sweetness thereby putting our freedom to such naked-risk of illegal money laundry troubles. In view of working out on this under proper security, I suggest you register with the NGO,which I will direct you to, so that we can use their platform to get this delivery to your address unquestionable. The registration with the NGO is done once in a lifetime, which will protect us, our family and this financial transaction. By registering with the NGO we shall be solidly protected while also having the following advantages as listed below:



(A) If you take my advice and register as a member with the NGO, this transaction will be swiftly concluded, your identity will NOT be exposed as the actual recipient of the Boxes of Fund, and if by any chance transaction is held or confiscated while on its way to you, you will be FREE from blames of breaking the laws, for all problems will be linked to the NGO and Origin/shipper. In this regards, you will be free and I will be free also.If you register with this NGO, we shall use the platform of the NGO to execute all Legal paperwork regarding the protection of this transfer while on transit to your account. In this regard, no security agents/authority will forever stop it.


(B)If you can take my advice and register with this NGO, this transaction will be untraceable, and you will be free with peace of mind, while transaction is in progress. If you look at what you shall stand to gain over this registration, you will realize within your conscience/mine that it will be foolhardy and stupid to avoid joining this NGO on a sensitive project like this. Even if it a sacrifice we have to pay for the security of our entire family, I think you should not overemphasize it. I wish to withhold the (Name and contact of the NGO pending your acceptance of my offer), because if you do not register, I cannot work with you by following such naked risk I am sure will fail.

Thanks for helping,thanks for your cooperation, God bless you and America

Regards,

Capt.Williams Swenson,
US-ARMY

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