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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: Mary Glen <dprasad@financier.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 02:06:07 +0530 (IST)
Subject: Greetings,

Good day, I have emailed you earlier on without any response from you, I know you will be surprise to read my email Please don't be skeptical to reply me, however, I really want to establish a true partnership with you, meanwhile it is my pleasure meeting you, I hope all is well with you and how are you enjoying your day. I am Mary Glen an American soldier, serving in the military with the army First Infantry Division currently deployed to Northern. Iraq, I am among the 500 Soldiers troops from the USA sent by President Obama to Erbil, Kurdish Region Northern.Iraq to provide military personnel for support and training services to Iraq Army officers to contain and neutralize the spread of terrorist Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) throughout the middle East and North Africa. I am 40 years old single woman from Miami, Florida, United State of America, I am loving, understanding and caring, looking forward to get a nice friend; it will be my pleasure to establish a mutual friendship with you. During one of our rescue mission we out ran the insurgents in their hide out and on the same building they flew from we discover save box that contain huge amount of money which belongs to the insurgents, which we believe was money meant for the purchase of weapons like missiles and ammunition, among all the army officers on that operation on that day agreed that the money will be shared among us and that was exactly what we did. Out of the total money my own share is $3,560,000 (Three Million, Five Hundred and Sixty Thousand United States Dollars) I sealed the money in box and deposit with a security firm for safety as diplomatic box, but as am writing you now I am seeking your assistance to ship out the money out of this country (Northern.Iraq) to your own country for you to keep it safe on my behalf till I come over to your country. So I want you to assure me that if this box containing the money is being delivered to you in your country home that you are going to be trustworthy to keep the money till when I will come to your country to meet you face to face and collect the money back from you. It is clear to me that you might be scared of this proposal, but I want to let you know that I have made solid arrangements with a security company and they have promised to deliver the money box through diplomatic method to any of my choosing destination smoothly, I have decide to compensate you with 30% of the total money once after the money is delivered to you. One important am making to you is not to discuss this matter to a third party, if you do not want to be party to this business please delete this letter from your email box to avoid any leakage of this information. PLEASE FIND ATTACHED OF MY PHOTO COPY FOR YOUR PROMPT PERUSAL. You can reach me directly on my email address: marylglen876@yahoo.com / marylglen876@gmail.com I wait to receive your acceptable reply as soon as you read this letter Love from Mary Glen Erbil, Kurdish Region Northern.Iraq

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