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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: Martins Bell <bmartins592010@att.net>
Reply-To: empire1951@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 10:20:32 -0800 (PST)
Subject: From Captain Martin Bell




Dearest,

 

I am Captain Martin Bell.
I am with the 3rd regiment infantry battalion for
peace keeping mission here in Kabul Afghanistan for the
United States. I am seeking your consent to secure my share of money which we
discovered during our open combat with Taliban in their camp last week. After
some exchanging of fire we overpower them and they ran away from their camp.
When we get into the camp we discovered some amount of United States dollars
which they are using to sponsor their terrorist attacks in the Country.



 

We tried to set the money on fire but at last
we concluded to share the money among ourselves. We have shared the money and I
have my own share of $850,000.00, this is about 621,617.65 EUR.  And I
packaged my own share in a briefcase and have sent it to the Red-Cross society,
because there is no other way out to keep it with me here. I need a good and
reliable person, I can trust to secure the money under legal way as I am going
to issue a letter of authority that will cover the funds.

 

I have agreed to offer you 30% of the total sum
and 70% will be mine which I wish to use for a profitable investment after my
retirement on August this year. I intend moving it by diplomatic courier agent
means, and I have discussed with Mr. Patrick Ross. A Canadian courier agent who
works with the Red- Cross
society here because the United Nations has banned the transfer of money
out of Afghanistan to protect the terrorism.

 

 

I shall however leave out other
details of this transaction until I receive an affirmation of your desire to
participate. Please contact me on my personal email address below for more
details: empire1951@hotmail.com or my London roaming +447 045 779 552

Many Thanks

 

Captain Martin Bell.

 

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