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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: Sergeant Patel Khan <barr.patelkhan@gmail.com>
Reply-To: o1ffice11004@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 13:29:31 +0100
Subject: TREAT AS CONFIDENTIAL

I am Sergeant Patel Khan of the United States Army an Indian American
Citizen. I was gifted with some cash and gold bars after saving the life of
a wealthy Sheikh at the sub-station where i am deployed in Syria since
4yrs. I do not want my superior officers to know about this so they won't
take it away from me. I rather send it to someone i don't know on a mutual
agreement than let them seize and keep it for themselves and leave me with
nothing.

We shall discuss about investing the fund, probably in your area of
business or something lucrative either home or abroad. But you must keep
this correspondence to yourself because of my position . Kindly indicate
your interest in assisting me in this venture by forwarding to me your
contact details . I will send you more details on how we proceed and
attached is the deposited slip of the fund.

Kindly reply as soon as possible through

Best regards,
Sergeant Patel Khan
US Military Rmeilan Base Northern Syria
The Kurdish People's Protection Units.
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information and is intended only for the use of the recipient(s) above. If
the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, he/she is hereby
notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this
communication or any of its content is strictly prohibited. In such case,
please advise the sender immediately and delete it from your system.
Further acknowledge that any views expressed in this message are those of
the individual sender and no binding nature of the message shall be implied
or assumed unless the sender does so expressly with due authority of
American Army Services

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