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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: Angela Maness <rguzman@inia.gob.ve>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 17:47:45 +0000
Subject:



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Hello,

Accept my tendered apology to encroach into your privacy in this
manner; First of all i would like to say thanks you for taking your
time to reply me. I got your email contact from a comprehensive
internet web search directory here in Afghanistan. I am here to offer
you my partnership in business. You do not know me but i mean no harm
sending you this proposition. Before i introduce my self you may
wonder why I would delegate a business proposal to a total stranger,
but this is the best I can do in my present situation not because
there is no one left in my life but there is absolutely no one close
enough to entrust the nature of this business with as my only daughter
serves as a clergy ( Minister Nun ) to my Anglican rooted home Convent
church town in Jackson Texas and i am an orphan and windowed 53 years
old lady born Angela W Maness 2 April 1963 at Tripler Army Hospital,
Honolulu. My Family moved to Lake Jackson Texas when i was 22 and I
joined the Marine Corps in June of 1987 year and graduated as the
platoon honor recruit in September 1987 from Oscar Company, 4th
Recruit Training Battalion, Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island,
S.C at age 23. I would have trusted this kind of project in the hands
of my daughter who is supposedly my closest confidant but the nature
and future of her service to God will not let me propose this to her
but rather i would do for her what every mother who loves the future
of her child would do hence my decision to work with a neutral person
if we can establish some trust between ourselves so that this secret
can be preserved.

My names are Sgt.Major Angela W. Maness I am currently finishing my
service as an International Military Staff (IMS) and Head of Strategic
Communications Advisor (PASCAD) Resolute Support Mission Kabul
Afghanistan. I am seeking your assistance to evacuate the sum of
$10,500,000.00 (Ten Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars) as far as I can be assured that it will be safe in your care
until I complete my service here in couple of months.

Matching my kind of compassion with professional administrative
training at Marine Barracks Washington, D.C., where i was called for
duty as sergeant major at the “oldest post of the Corps to becoming
the depot sergeant major of Marine Corps Resolute force in Iraq were
myself and couple of higher rank officers did some OIL BUSINESS deal
and made a whooping sum of $132 Million U.S Dollars and after we all
shared the money I later realized $10.5 Million U.S Dollars which is
my personal share of the deal, due to my status as a US Marine
Sergeant Major, I cannot be able to move this huge funds to my account
in United States to avoid further interrogation or face any kind of
probation by the U.S Government and I packaged my own share in a
briefcase and have sent it to the Red-Cross Society, because there is
no other way out to keep it with me here, so with the help of a German
contact working with the UN here (his office enjoys some immunity) I
was able to get the package out to a safe location entirely out of
trouble spot here in Kabul where i currently staffed with
International Military Force. He does not know the real contents of
the package, as I have deposited the consignment as a family property.
Your acceptance to this would encourage me to send further information
for us to proceed.

Furthermore, if my offer is of no appeal to you, delete this message
and forget I ever contacted you. Do not destroy my Career because you
do not approve of my proposal. I believe that such opportunities only
come once in a lifetime. I cannot let this chance pass me by. For once
I find myself in total control of my destiny. This chance won't pass
me by. I ask that you do not destroy my chance, if you will not work
with me let me know and let me move on with my life but do not destroy
me. If you give me positive signals, I will give you the relevant
details and initiate this process towards a conclusion. I send you
this mail not without a measure of fear as to what the consequences,
but I know within me that nothing ventured is nothing gained and that
success and riches never come easy or on a platter of gold. Do not
betray my confidence.

If you wish to proceed with this, please get back to me and also
provide me with your ALTERNATIVE EMAIL as means of contact should in
case i can't reach you through this email of yours.

copy out my personal email and write me so i can get your attention.
usakrtl@gmail.com


Sgt Major MC Angela Maness
The International Military Staff (IMS)
Head of Strategic Communications Advisor (PASCAD)
Resolute Support Mission
Kabul. Afghanistan

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