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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: "Captain Porter Derrick" <info@ja7ken.jp>
Reply-To: captainporter1@vivaldi.net
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 08:46:11 -0600
Subject: Hope you can be trusted!!!//

Hello,

I am seeking your assistance to evacuate the sum of $4.5M. (Four Million
Five Hundred United States Dollars) and (999.9 CERTIFIED GOLD BARS) to
you, as far as I can be assured that it will be safe in your care until we
complete our service here. As soon as you have the cash and gold on your
care you have yours and keep mine until we conclude our service.

I agreed to offer you a reasonable percentage (40%) of the total sum of
money, while we share the gold bars 50 as gratification for your
assistance and cooperation. Its $100 bills throughout and (999.9 CERTIFIED
GOLD BARS) it's contained in Two Trunk boxes. I'm thinking of tagging the
boxes as Swift Military Consignment/Courier with Vatican Seal as Red Cross
container to deliver to your mailing address as Christian Artifact
Material. It will be done this way to ensure a
maximum safety and ship it out of Afghanistan through a special diplomatic
scheme. Please respond as soon as possible because I don't like the boxes
to continue to be here for security purpose due to the volume of bombings
here in Afghanistan.

I advise you to please keep this issue highly confidential. Diplomatic
shipment is a very secure and legal way of sending the Trunk box of money
out of here (Afghanistan), Please do confirm to me if this is quite
acceptable by you so that I can start making arrangements immediately to
have the Trunk box shipped out of Afghanistan.

Delicate matter like this in the care of a stranger, but this is the best
we can do in my present situation. I would have trusted this kind of
project in the hands of my wife who was my closest confidant, but I lost
her to cancer on 22ND April 2017 (9) months after we got married, and my
only brother has ruined his life with hard drugs, hence my decision to
work with a neutral person if we can establish some trust between
ourselves instead of confiding in my buddies back home so that this little
secret can be preserved. I will await your immediate response to this
email. I am counting on your understanding and full cooperation in order
to make this work faster.

I await your immediate contact with me. Do confirm your willingness to
cooperate with me in this project. Please do provide me with your personal
information available to me so we can proceed.

1.FULL NAMES
2.ADDRESS
3.MOBILE TELEPHONE NUMBER
4.SCAN COPY OF YOUR IDENTITY
5.OCCUPATION

I will send my ID card to you as soon you indicate your interest in
assisting me.

Kind regards.
Captain Porter Derrick,
United States Soldier on Peace Keeping in Afghanistan.

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