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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: Alex Sidney <alexsidney@btinternet.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:50:59 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: WARM GREETING FROM IRAQ





HELLO SIR

I know my message will come as great shock to you because this medium (internet) has been greatly abused, but it still remains the fastest medium of communication. Anyway, I am a captain with the United Nations troop in Iraq, on war against terrorism. Based on our United States president. (Barak Obama) and executive decision for withdrawing troops from Iraq which started since September , I have been deployed to go and work in from military base soonest. Our mission is to help beef up terrorist targeted states, mostly the United States and the European Union on the war against terrorism. I want to inform you that I have in my possession the sum of 16.2 million USD. Which I got from one of our raiding here and I decided to take the money for my suffering here.you know they make a lot of money on crude oil,and they don't go to bank rather than kept at home for terrorism. I deposited this money inside a box with a Red Cross agent informing him that
we are making contact for the real owner of the Box. It is under my power to approve whosoever comes forth for this box.

I want to invest the money in your country as soon as I am deployed for a good business that will be under your care. Anyway you will advice me on that since I am not a business person. I cannot move this money to the United States because I will be in Europe for about 3years, so I need someone I could trust. If you accept, I will transfer the Box through diplomatic arrangement to Europe where you will be the beneficiary because I am a uniformed personnel and I cannot be parading such an amount so I need to present someone as the owner. I am an American and an intelligence officer at that, so I have a 100% authentic means of transferring the money through diplomatic 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 you need for us to carry out this transaction successfully. I decided to find someone that is real and not imaginary. 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 details to you. I will only reach you through email, because our calls might be monitored, I just have to be sure whom I am dealing with. If you are interested please send me your personal mobile number so I can call you for further enquiries when I am out of our military network. I am writing from a fresh email account so if you are not interested do not reply to this email and please delete this message, if no response after 3days I will then search for someone else. I wait for your contact details so we can go on. In less than 5days the money should have been
noted on your account and I will come over for my money. I will give to you 30% of the sum and 70% is for me. I hope I am been fair on this deal.

Get back to me with your full information:
YOUR FULL NAME.......
YOUR FULL ADDRESS....................
A SCAN COPY OF YOUR DRIVERS LICENCE/ INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT OR YOUR PICTURE
YOUR DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER.........
Regards,
Capt Alex Sidney

YOUR URGENT REPLY

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