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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: tokgray@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:36:00 +0300
Subject: Hello




Greetings,
I know you would be surprised to read from someone relatively unknown to you. My
name is Lt. Gray Tok, a member of the U.S. ARMY USARPAC Medical Team, which was
deployed to Iraq at the beginning of the war in Iraq. I would like to share some
highly personal classified information about my personal experience and role
which I played in the pursuit of my career serving under the U.S 1st Armoured
which was at the fore-front of the war in Iraq.

Please visit the website below to get the details of what I'm talking about.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm

We hid one of the box containing (USD$10,000,000.00) Ten Million United States
Dollars away from our troops for our own good. although we have deposited the
box containing the funds in a courier company as REJECTED FIRST AID MATERIALS to
be returned to the producer,so that the company will not know the actual content
of the box.

Right now, am not in Iraqi any more for some reasons and i want to use this
opportunity to move the box out from that company by giving them instruction to
send it to you as the producer of the (REJECTED FIRST AID MATERIALS) because i
don't want my colleagues to share the funds with me for reasons best known to me.

I' am ready to give you 15% of the funds for your kind assistance. If you are
ready to assist me, please provide the information below:

Your names in full.
Your age and sex.
Your occupation and position.
Your nationality and residential address.
Your phone, fax number and a scanned copy of your Int'l passport.

Once i receive this information, i will forward and instruct them to deliver the
REJECTED MATERIALS to you immediately and also forward their contact details to
you. Please treat this as a top secret. You have nothing to worry about because
my colleagues doesn't know where the box is at present, unless i told them,
which i will not.

Sincerely,

Gray Tok.



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