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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: "Sergeant Jared Fletsher" <jared@army.com>
Reply-To: Sgt.Jared.Fletsher@live.com
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 19:21:21 -0300 (BRT)
Subject: Attention Please!!




Attention Please,

I, Staff Sergeant Jared Fletsher, I have an urgent proposition Involving an
investment initiative in your country's economy to discuss with you, It will be
of mutual benefit to both of us and I believe you can handle it once we have a
common understanding and mutual cooperation in the execution of the modalities.
I work with US Air Defense Artillery Company Task Force here in Baqubah al
Jadidah, Iraq.

Should you be interested, please email back to me through this email address:
(Sgt.Jared.Fletsher@live.com) for details: And I must asure you that this
transactions is 100% risk free and you have nothing to fear in any way. I await
your earliest response.

Yours Sincerely,
SSgt.Jared Fletsher.

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