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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: "Capt. Patrick Williams" <terenccewong@gmail.com>
Reply-To: captpatrickwilliams125@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:52:48 +0200
Subject: DEAR BELOVED FRIEND,

Dear Beloved Friend,

I saw your email from a search Engine and I decided to contact you
urgently for this great opportunity between me and you, permit me to
introduce myself to you, I am a captain with the United Nations troop
Kabul Afghanistan, on war against terrorism. Based on the United
States legislative and executive decision for withdrawing troops from
Afghanistan, I have been deployed to come and work in your country on
a military base soonest. Our mission is to help beef up terrorist
targeted states, mostly in the war against terrorism and I will need a
house for myself & that is why I contacted you.

On the other hand I want to inform you that I have in my possession
the sum of US$10.5Million USD) Which I got from a crude oil deal here
in Afghanistan. I deposited this money with a Red Cross agent
informing him that we are making contact for the real owner of the
money. And It is under my power to approve whoever that comes forth
for this consignment.

I want to invest the money in your state as soon as I am deployed into
your state for a good business, anyway you will advise me on that
since I am not a business person. so I need someone I could trust. If
you accept, I will struggle to transfer the money to your country
where you will be the beneficiary.

I am a uniformed person and I cannot be parading such an amount, so I
need to present someone to stand as the recipient. I am an American
and an intelligence officer and for that I have a 100% authentic means
of transferring the money through a courier service. I just need your
acceptance and all is done.

Please if you are interested in this transaction I will give you the
complete details that you need for us to carry out this transaction
successfully, i decided to find someone that is for real and not
imaginary and that is why I went to a secured web site, where I can be
sure that the person is real. I believe I can trust you. Where we are
now we can only communicate through our military communication
facilities which are secured so nobody can monitor our emails, then I
can explain in detail to you, I will only reach you through email,
because our calls might be monitored but I have to be sure whom I am
dealing with.

If you are interested please let me know, I am out of our military
network but writing to you from a fresh email account so if you are
not interested do not reply to this email and please delete this
message, if i did not get your response after 3days I will then search
for someone else.

I wait for your contact details so we can go on. I will give you 40%
of the sum and 60% is for me. I hope I am fair on this deal.

Get back to me with your full information:
YOUR FULL NAME.........
YOUR OCCUPATION..........
YOUR FULL ADDRESS....................
YOUR DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER........

Regards,

Capt. Patrick Williams
US ARMY
Kabul Afghanistan
Email: captpatrickwilliams125@gmail.com

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