419 scam: "Sergeant Brian Horn" <sgtbrian_h34@yahoo.com> very very urgent

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Sergeant Brian Horn" <sgtbrian_h34@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: sgt_brianhorn35@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:13:45 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: very very urgent

My name is Sergeant Brian Horn.

I am an American soldier with Italian background, serving in the military with the army's 173rd Airborne Brigade and infantry division. With a very need for assistance, I have summed up courage to contact you. I found your contact particulars in an address journal. I am seeking your kind assistance to move the sum of (US$20,000.000, 00Million) Tewnty Million United States Dollars to you, as far as you can be assured that my share will be safe in your care, this is no stolen money, and there is no danger involved.

Source of money: Some money in various currencies was discovered in containers at a farmhouse hidden behind the false wall house near one of Saddam's Hussein old palaces in Tikrit-Iraq during a rescue operation, I and staff Sgt James Clancy take some part of this money and shared among both of us before informing anybody about it since both of us saw the money first agreed on it. This was quite an illegal thing to do, but I tell you what? No compensation can make up for the risk we have taken with our lives in this hellhole of which a roadside bomb killed my best friend in-law last week. find the story of this money on the web address below: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm

The above figure was given to me as my share, So with the help of a British contact working here and his office enjoy some immunity, I was able to get the package out to a safe location entirely out of trouble spot. He does not know the real contents of the package, and believes that it belongs to a American medical doctor who died in a raid here in Iraq, and before giving up, trusted me to hand over the package to his family in United States.

We shall share in proportion of 30/70 % I will offer you 30% of the fund and my own share is 70% which shall be safe in your hand,in fact when you contact me i will tell you position of things and more details.

Regards,
Sergeant Brian Horn.

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