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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: =?iso-8859-1?q?ROBERT=20TAYLOR?= <robert_t99999@yahoo.com.br>
Reply-To: roberttt@inbox.lv
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 09:47:20 -0800 (PST)
Subject: FROM ROBERT CAN YOU HELP ME OUT? IS VERY URGENT


Meu novo endereço de e-mailAgora você pode me contactar através do e-mail: robert_t99999@yahoo.com.br

Dear Sir,

With a very desperate need for assistance, I have summed up courage

to contact you. I am from (will disclose this later), presently

working in Iraq with an international organisation that I will also

disclose later, I found your contact particulars in an

address journal.

I am seeking your assistance to evacuate the sum of (US$8.523

Million Dollars) Eight Million five Hundred Thousand And Twenty

Three Dollars to

your country or any other safe country of your choice, as far as I can be

assured that my share will be safe in your care untill I complete

my service here,this is no stolen money, and there are no dangers involved.

SOURCE OF MONEY:

Some money in various currencies was discovered concealed in

barrels with piles of weapons and ammunitions at a location near one

of Saddam,s old palaces during a rescue operation, and it was

agreed by all party present that the money be shared amongst us, this

was quite an illegal thing to do, but I tell you what? no

compensation can make up for the risks we have taken with our lives

in this hell hole.

The above figure was given to me as my share, and to conceal this

kind of money became a problem for me, so with the help of a German

contact working here, and his office enjoys some immunity, I was able

to get the package out to a safe cation entirely out of trouble

spot. He does not know the real contents of the package, and

believes that it

belongs to an Asian/American who died in an air raid, and before giving

up, trusted me to hand over the package to his business associate. I

have now found a secured way of getting the package out to a safer

country for you to pick up, and will discuss this with you when I am

sure that you are willing to assist me.

One passionate appeal I will make to you is not to discuss this

matter with a third party, should you have reasons to reject

this offer, please destroy this mail as any leakage of this

information will be too bad for us.

I do not know for how long we will remain here, and I have

survived 2 suicide bomb attacks by the special grace of God, this and

other reasons I will mention later has prompted me to reach out for help, I

honestly want this matter to be resolved immediately. Please contact

me as soon as possible.

Regards,

Robert Taylor





- ROBERT TAYLOR


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