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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: ssgt.mariepnatoja@gmail.com
Reply-To: sgt.mariepantoja@gmail.com
Date: 06 Jan 2020 15:24:16 -0800
Subject: ATTENTION: STRICTLY BETWEEN YOU AND ME. Please Consider Enviroment Before Viewing

Hello,

I hope this email meets you well. I am sure you are surprised to
get this email. I got your information online after running a
background check on you and I see you are someone I can trust.

My name is Staff Sergeant Marie Pantoja of the United States
Marines Corps. I have been in Afghanistan for the past one year,
I even spent my christmas and new year over here and I am still
here. Alot of bad things is happening here and still happening. I
embarked on a very dangerous mission some weeks ago and saved a
man who was kidnapped by a terrorist group with his family. He
happened to be a very wealthy man. I risked my life to save his
daughter and helped him get out of the country on asylum.

He left me with a precious gift of 99 gold bars. i have done a
proper check on it, each gold bar weighs 1kg and currently in
the market a kilogram of gold is worth 51,751.45 United States
Dollar. That sums up a total of 5,123,393.55 United States
Dollar.

I will need your help to ship this gold out. I AM WILLING TO
SHARE THE GOLD PROCEITS, 60, 40 WITH YOU. I will take 60 percent
and give you 40 percent after we get it shipped to you and sell
it.

This transaction is to be EXTREMELY CONFIDENTIAL (Top Secret). I
had to contact you to help me or I could end up loosing this gold
if i dont ship it out immediately. .

I guarantee you that, this transaction is all legal, risk free
and all documents to backup the gold is available. All I will
need is your consent to have the gold shipped to you and once am
out of here, I can meet you up so that we can sell off the gold.

I will give you more details once I get a positive response from
you.

Thanks and I await your response.

Ssgt.Marie Pantoja

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