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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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Fraud email example:

From: Calvin <diogo@banho-co.com>
Reply-To: calvinjames070@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 02:50:37 +0100
Subject: Hello, My Dear Friend,


Hello, My dear friend,
How are you doing? hope this message gets to you in good health and
thank you for finding time to read through this message.

My name is Calvin J. Wesley I'm 53 years old, I'm from San Jose,
California, USA. I'm a widower, I'm a military doctor working with the
United Nations international security force ( UN ISAF ), my active
location currently is Pakistani boarder in (Afghanistan).

I'm sending this message because I thought about it very well before
letting you know about it. I received an email from the security
company I deposited my box with and that made me so confused now.

My friend, I will to tell you everything to your better understanding,
but i want to know if you can keep our discussion as a secret.Please
my friend, promise me because what i'm about tell you is a top secret
to me here and i will also like you to keep it as a secret between us
okay..

Sincerely my friend, deep down my heart, I feel and know I can trust
you and i'm counting on now even more when I read from you.

My friend, some time ago in Iraq, before I was redeployed here in
Afghanistan, my troops recovered some boxes from the Taliban's trying
to escape through the border and in that process it resulted to a hot
exchange of gun fire between my troops and the Taliban's and my troops
were able to overcome them and brought the boxes to my office as a
report..

And after checking we discovered they contain a lot of funds inside
and thinking of the risk my self and troops are going through in Iraq
then, we decided to share the funds among ourselves with the concept
of our then Captain.

My friend, i have manage to rescue my own share of the funds well
packaged with a secret lock code numbers with the help of a Red Cross
officer who came for medical supply in Iraq on Humanitarian Assignment
and i made him to understand that my box was containing my family
belongings, and pleaded with him to assist me in depositing with a
security company in Netherlands.

The company are also not aware of the content of my box as it was only
deposited as family belongings and i have never discussed this with
any one else it's base on the trust and believe i have within me that
I can trust you, that is why i am able to tell you about this my
friend, because I have prayed about it.

My worries right now, is that i received an email from the Security
Company informing me that they have some problem with their Government
and that their company will soon be declaring bankruptcy and for this
reason they want all their customers to claim their belongings as they
may shutdown in know time.

As a matter of fact my friend, i will truly need your help for you to
help me contact the security company to clear and receive my box there
in your country before i meet with you okay, as there is nothing i can
do from here at the moment due to my contract that is still running
here and that is the more reason i will need your help now.

All i want from you is your understanding with me and confidence and
trust in me to help me do everything possible to ensure that you are
able to clear and receive my box on time from the company before they
finally close down okay.

My friend, if you can help me on this i will truly appreciate it and
reward you with 20% of the total worth of the money which is $965,000
US dollars, so i should give to you now the details of the security
company for you to write an email to them and i will also write to
inform them about you that you will be the one to help me clear and
receive my box base on my mission currently in Afghanistan.

Hope to read from you soon my friend, thanks and God bless you as you
help in this urgent issue.

Calvin W. J.
Red Cross/United Nations Special Agent.


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