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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: Captain John Williams <offinancefederalministry4@gmail.com>
Reply-To: johnwilliams999@yandex.com
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:44:51 -0800
Subject: PLEASE URGENT ATTENTION NEEDED

*Dear Respected Partner to be,*






























* Happy new year to you and your family although we America Soldiers are
celebrating our own here in war zone in Kabul Afghanistan.With every due
respect, please do not see this very proposal as an embarrassment since I
am contacting you for the first time. Or you see it as one of those
scamming epidemic proposals perpetrated mostly by low life bastard clever
scammers mainly from Africans going by the reliable information reaching us
in the war zone here in Kabul Afghanistan. That they are impersonating
America Soldiers like us for their deceitful act. But one day they will be
caught for severe punishment.Kindly permit me to introduce myself to you, I
am a captain with the United Nations troop Kabul Afghanistan on war against
terrorism. Based on the United States legislative and executive decision
for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan come next year. I have been
deployed to come and work in your country on military base soonest. Our
mission is to help beef up terrorist targeted states, mostly on the war
against terrorism. and I will need a house for myself & that is one of the
main reasons I contacted you.On the other hand, I want to inform you that
in the course of our operations, (US$37.9Million) has been discovered from
crude oil deal here in Kabul Afghanistan without any ownership, hence this
money was deposited with a Red Cross Agent informing him that we are making
contact for the real owner of the money. And it is under my power to
approve whoever that comes forth for this consignment based on my current
key position here in US Military base. I need to present someone to stand
as the recipient as demanded by US Military Authority here. I am an
American and an intelligence officer and for that so I have a 100%
authentic means of making sure the money is delivered through diplomatic
Courier Service legally in your name for our mutual benefits. I just need
your acceptance and all is done. Please if you are interested in this
transaction I will give to you the complete details that you need for us to
carry out this transaction successfully. I decided to find someone that is
for real and not imaginary and that is why I went to a secured website for
your contact, where I can be sure that the person is real. I believe I can
trust you. Where we are now we can only communicate through our military
communication facilities which is secured so nobody can monitor our emails.
Then I can explain in details to you will only reach you through email,
because our calls might be monitored but have to be sure whom I am dealing
with.If you are interested please send me your personal detailed
information for further update when I am out of our military network. I am
writing from a fresh email account so if you are not interested do not
reply to this email, and please delete this message. Please note that if
there is no response from you after 3 days, I will then search for someone
else. I wait for your contact details urgently so that we can proceed. I
will give to you 40% of the sum and 60% is for me. I hope I am being fair
on this deal. Respond back to me with your full information: YOUR FULL
NAME......... YOUR FULL ADDRESS.................... YOUR DIRECT TELEPHONE
NUMBER........ Regards, Capt. John Williams, US ARMY, Kabul Afghanistan*

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