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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: Mary Dapino <xesbcecilia@gmail.com>
Reply-To: marydapino@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:49:37 +0100
Subject: Dear Friend,

Dear Friend,
Good day, hope you and your family are fine, am fine over here in Syria.
My name is Mary Dapino, United State America Army a Citizen, from Texas, I
am 42 Yrs years old woman still serving in the America Army soldier ,
Presently i am in Syria at war zone for peace keeping mission due to the
WAR crisis going on here in Syria for 1 year and six months now,.
About me, I have a good heart, I am very sincere and down to earth. I have
a loving heart and am very respectful and kind Woman, I have a lot of love
to give, I never judge others and am very compassionate, I love to
appreciate the little things in life and am very respectful.

I have my reasons to contact you as i have something very important to
share with you in this mail as it was urgent to me, . I wish to start a
very strong relationship with you and my relationship with you will brings
a lot of great changes in my life and your life. I want you to understand
that relationship dose not count distance, maybe we can start as friend
for good investment..
i really do not need to tell you this as a stranger who you do not know
before or meet, I know we are just knowing each other but we can share
ideas and discuss about important things and more issues that took my
attention to your email address as i search on business net page, read
below as my reason of contacting you right now,

as I informed you about something very important to share with you.Listing
to this, during one of our rescue mission with my Military team we came
across a safe box that contain huge amount of money that belongs to the
revolutionaries, which I believe they are using the money to buy weapons
and ammunition's land for war, after I discovered the fund it was agreed by
all our military parties in that mission that the money will be shared
between us.
Dear, out of the total fund my share was $ 4.700.000.00( Four Million
Seven Hundred Thousand USD), right now I am seeking your assistance to
evacuate my share of the money, which is $ 4.700.000.00 to your place as
quickly as possible, at the moment I am deeply afraid of losing the funds
here due to the level of attacks everyday, dear if you can assure me that
my funds will be safe in your care until I complete my service here in the
next few months. there are no risks involved.

Dear, due to my position in service, I keep the funds in a treasure box and
deposited it to UN Security office here as family items, I don't have bank
account here and due to my position in services, I can not transfer the
fund because all our activities are intact, also our military communication
here are only radio message and internet facilities. To avoid losing the
funds here due to the level of crisis everyday, I have made a solid
arrangements with a UN Security office, they agreed and promised to send
their diplomats to deliver the treasure box to any destination of my choice.

I need your urgent assistance and as you assist me receive the fund and
paid any charge that may come in-case if there is any, I shall be
compensating you with 40% of the total fund personally, while the remain of
the balance shall be my investment capital in your City which will still be
under your control until I meet you,And i will also use it to buy a house
in Paris. dear I plead you not to disclose this issue to a third party, if
you have any reasons to reject this offer, please delete all my email
conversation with you because any leakage of this information will be very
dangerous for me considering my position in services.

I pray and believe you will not betray my trust, take me as your own wife
or your business partner as the fund will invest under your control.
Although you may wonder why I am so soon revealing myself to you without
knowing you so deeply, it is better I reveal it to you and you help me,
than losing the funds here out of my ignores, I have so much fear in me
because I have survived two bomb attack here, so I need your urgent
assistance.
Thanks and remain bless, your urgent reply will be highly appreciated, I
hope my explanation is very clear but if you need further clarification,
then send your questions, I expect to hear from you soonest, with your full
details by fill below

A. Your full name................
B. Occupation...................
C. Phone number..................
D. Home Address / Office Address.................
E. Photo............
F. Country / City.............
G. You live in your own house or rent................
H. Age..............

kindly send me those information if you are interested to do this business
with me , Please don't reply me if you are not interested .

always taken good care of yourself and also put me in your daily prayers.
Yours Faithfully
Mary Dapino

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