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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: "Col. Perry Scott" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <col.perry21901@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 04:45:28 -0800
Subject: Re: Greetings!

Greeting!

Please, kindly accept my sincere apology for contacting you in this manner over a transaction of this magnitude. I got your contact details after an extensive on-line search Via (Network Power Charitable Trust) for a reliable person and I summoned courage to contact you.

I was born in Rhode Island to a family of Four, Dad and Mom, Myself and my younger brother Russell. My Dad died when I was only 7 he was an FBI and Mom later died when I was 12 she had a terrible accident and died three days after in New York as she was working as a nurse in Lenox Hill hospital in new York, I passed through the rank (Captain) at the Newport station in Rhode Island before I was deploy to Afghanistan from Iraq.

I would have trusted this kind of project in the hands of my wife who was my closest confidant, but I lost her during child birth on 22ND April 2010, 10 months after we got married, and my only brother has ruined his life with hard drugs and presently in a rehabilitation home in Dallas.
If you are willing to show me your honesty and trust, I think I will be able to trust and work with you. I need you to be the receiver of $7.5 Million Dollars. Out of this amount of money, I am willing to offer you 30% share.

One passionate appeal I will make to you is not to discuss this matter with a third party, should you have reasons to reject this offer, please destroy this mail as any leakage of this information will be too bad for us. I have survived 2 suicide bomb attacks by the special grace of God, this and other reasons I mention earlier has prompted me to reach out for help.

I am also looking at investing my share of the money in a good business venture especially in Oil and Gas, Hotel and Tourism or Real Estate which will also be my country home if things go on well with us. Some of our officers successfully had their share of the money delivered to them in many countries of their choice. i want to know if you can or if you are willing to stand for me so that i can send this money in your name, because i am not going to do it myself because i am still in active service. So i need somebody to stand in for me.

I will also agree to offer you a reasonable percentage (30%) of the valuables, (10%) for Charity and (60%) should be kept for me for pick up. Please you have to accept this from the total values in gold as your share in this transaction, Kindly forward to me your Name in full, Telephone numbers, Residential address, Occupation Your Age and any means of identification so I know the person I am dealing with for this deal.

With this requested information's, it will help to facilitate the arrival of the package, and with your co-operation on this issue I know the packages (Trunk Boxes) would get to you in less than two weeks. Please get back to me with the needed information's, I will await your reply. God bless America.

Kindly respond for complete details which will be of mutual benefit for you and me.

I wait to hear from you soon.

Regards,
Col. Perry Scott
US soldier 1st Armored Division

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