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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: "Tomas Bjarland" <sgttomas_bjarland@rocketmail.com>
Reply-To: tomasbjarland@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 01:09:01 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Very urgent.

My name is Sergeant Tomas Bjarland.

I am an Finland soldier with America background, serving in the military
with the army's 173rd Airborne Brigade and UN military observer in Syria .
With urgent need for your 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 ($ 20,000,000.00 Million) Twenty
Million 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 Hafez al-Assad
old palaces in Azm Palace in Damascus Syrian during a rescue operation. I
and staff Sgt Edmond Ryan 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
last week.


The above figure was given to me as my share, So with the help of a
British observer 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 European medical doctor who died in a raid
here in Syria, and before giving up, trusted me to hand over the package
to his family in Europe.

We shall share in proportion of 30 % for your kindself and 70 % for myself
which shall be safe in your hand. in fact when you contact me i will tell
you position of things and more details.

Regards,
Tomas.

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