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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: " Robert Brown" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <sergeantrobetbrown@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 10:43:41 -0700
Subject: I seek for your assistance

Greetings to you, I know my message will come to you as a surprise but want you to know that am contacting you for business partnership.

I really wish to have you as my good friend/partner and wishes to hand over my funds to you for investments on trust. I will like to use this opportunity to let you know about me, I am Sergeant Robert Brown serving in U.S Military Base in Afghanistan, I have a total sum of $1.3 Million US dollars I wish to use the funds for investments that is why I seek for your assistance to be my partner.

I have contacted you in good heart and the main reason why I have decided to entrust all this funds to you is because I am a military officer, we are not permitted to transact business that is why I request that you help me to invest the fund, I want us to use the total fund for our investment with you while you take control of all investments. I am offering you 30% share of the total funds, I will be coming to meet with you later as soon as I have vacation, although I have more interest on real estate.

Please contact me through my private email address for security reason: (sergeantrobetbrown@gmail.com )

Note that the whole process is very simple and we must keep a low profile at all times and I want all our communications to remain on emails for now.

I look forward to your reply and co-operation.

Warm Regards,

Robert Brown
Please contact me through my private email address for security reason: (sergeantrobetbrown@gmail.com)

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