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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: CAPTAIN MARTIN ALBERT <yahlotto@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:17:15 -0800 (PST)
Subject: DEAR FRIEND CAN I TRUST YOU.(FROM CAPTAIN MARTIN ALBERT)



Hello ,



I want to inform you that i have a business

proposal for you. I am a captain with the United Nations troop in Iraq,on

war against terrorism.Based on the United States legislative and executive

decision for withdrawing troops from Iraq come this year,i have been

deployed to come and work in your country's 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. On the other

hand i want to inform you that I have in my possession the sum of

16.2million USD. which was recovered from one of our raids on terrorists

here in Iraq because they keep most of their money at home for evil

activities which they normally get through illegal deals on crude oil.



Based on the suffering we undergo here some of us do meet such luck.It

happened that i went for this raid with the men in my unit and i decided to

take it as my share for my stress here in this evil land filled with

suicide bombers.I deposited this money with a red cross agent informing him

that we are making contact for the real owner of the money.Base on WORLD ECONOMIC CRISIS that has eating up the hole world now and people loosing their jobs,i wish to use this money for charity purposes and It is under my power to approve whoever comes forth for this money.

I cannot move this money to the United states because i will be in Europe

for about 3years,so i need someone i could deal with.If you accept,i will

transfer the money to Europe where you will be the beneficiary because i am

a uniformed person and i cannot be parading such an amount so i need to

present someone as the beneficiary.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 to 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 and

that is why i went to a secured CAR 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 is 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 inquiries

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 am doing this on trust,you should understand and

you should know that as a trained military expert i will always play safe

in case you are the bad type,but i pray you are not.16.2million USD is a

lot of money which is the dream of anyone.



I wait for your contact details so we can go on.In less than 7days the

money should have been noted on your account and i will come over for my

money.I will give to you 20% of the sum and 80% is for my dream.I hope i am

been fair on this deal.Please Reply to captainmartinalbert@gmail.com



Regards,

Captain Martin Albert.

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