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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: falkin stuart <james1994smith11@gmail.com>
Reply-To: falkin.stuart@yandex.com
Date: Sat, 14 May 2022 07:12:29 -0700
Subject: AWAIT YOUR RESPONDS

Dear,

Ref: Contact me for this transaction of mutual benefit

Can I trust you and also to do this Business with you? Please I want you to
read this message carefully and I will give you all the proof that will
show you they are real, how are you doing? Hope you are good? Please read
this message carefully, I am Stuart Falkin , 52 years old , from Houston
Texas, United States of America but I lived in the Military Cantonment in
Houston Texas, I completed my training program and physical education
course at Fort bliss command Virginia US. I am a 2nd lieutenant and
Protocol officer. I am well trained in combat and infantry, I had a tough
childhood as I lost my Parents when I was very little and I am the only son
and only child. I never knew my real parents or any relation because my
Parents nationalized in the USA. I was adopted by Mr. Eugene Lee Scott, and
his wife Rose, may their souls rest in peace Amen as they are also dead.

I was on the Peace keeping force deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan from Iraq
before I left Kabul as President Joe Biden withdrew the US troop months
ago, please can you be trusted? If you are current, you must have heard the
world breaking news in Iraq some time ago, about the USA ARMY stormed a
place and made this discovery which was handed over to the USA heads, till
today nobody gave account of it, you can read more about it here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2967029.stm

I will attach my pictures to prove what I am about to tell you once I hear
from you, please keep everything confidential , there was a day we went for
inspection in terrorist hideout, we discovered bags fill with US Dollars
and other currency, me and my group returned it back to the base camp, our
heads told us that they will report it to the proper office for
investigation and up to date we did not hear anything about the money again
and I feel they must have shared it among themselves, so after the next day
I went to take records of other items in the trucks I discovered from the
terrorist hideout and I noticed there was another bag right inside their
Truck tanker side, I said glory be to God, I took the bag, and hide it in a
safe place, after some couple of days I decided to count the money in my
room and it was a huge amount $ 12.6 Million US Dollars, I smiled.

If you will assure me, honesty, sincerity, I will make plans how to move it
to your address as a Military family valuable because I have already moved
it to London with the help of UN Peacekeeping Delivery envoy to Europe, I
will obtain (M.N.I.F.V.T) Military Non Inspection Family Valuable Tag with
UN Tag and tag on the box for delivery to avoid any body to open it, as far
as it have the UN Tag and Military Non Inspection Family Valuable Tag, When
it gets to your address you will take Five Million US Dollars and keep
Seven Million six hundred Thousand US Dollars till I meet you one on one.

Hope to hear from you,

Regards,
Lieut.Stuart Falkin

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