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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: "Gen. Larry Wayne" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <info.personalcontact07@zoho.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2017 14:59:21 +0700
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL MESSAGE WITH IMMEDIATE RESPOND.

Hello dear, how are you doing today?

I am sorry for the manner of approach, it was due to the urgency of this transaction, i decided to chose you as a trustworthy friend despite we had never met before, but I believe friendship can happen by one way or the other.
Perhaps you think this sounds weird, but I want good friend with you and i will like to introduce about myself briefly, My name Larry Wayne Ellis, I'm originally from the United State of America, but I joined the US Army as NATO FORCE and now I am still running a personal errand and stay in Afghanistan as International Security Assistance Force (ISAF),

ISAF was initially charged with securing Kabul and the surrounding areas from the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and factional warlords, to allow for the establishment of the Afghan Transitional Administration headed by Hamid Karzai.

I want to tell you a bit about what I'm doing here. I was one of three aides or bodyguards Ex President of Afghanistan, named Hamid Karzai. We were assigned to secure or keep him and his family here because of the war conditions in Afghanistan today.

He gave us compensation or the amount of money for this task, we have divided the flat part of each of our money. I personally had planned to hand over this money on one of the security company in order to preserve it for me and the total amount of money that $1,500,000,00 US Dollar (One million and Five hundred thousand dollars). Therefore war is going on here and I decided not to send this money to my bank account in the United States. Besides, if I keep trying to send this money in Afghanistan Bank directly to my account, i will be asking many questions due to large amounts of money on this. I am currently looking for someone who is responsible and reliable that can be trusted to be able to receive as well as save money while for me till my arrival to your country.

Can you help me to accept and save this money? for this I will appreciate your efforts to provide lucrative compensation for you.

I'll give you 40% of the total amount of my money and just keep the remaining funds by 60% for me on your account safely. I had planned to myself, after I had completed a contract assignment in Afghanistan I would have moved to start a new life in your country. I really hope and would appreciate an honest answer directly from you about this. If you are willing, please reply to my message soon so we can start all the preparations without further delay.

We need to communicate more actively in order to get to know each other. I am waiting for your reply as your willingness.

Have a nice day.

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