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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: sgt.nathan@jasonprintsx.com
Reply-To: <sgt.nathanjmace@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 12:45:05 +0200
Subject: LET US ACHIEVE THIS TOGETHER



I am Sgt. Nathan Mace; I work for the United State Army I am presently
stationed in Kabul Afghanistan.

I am looking forward in doing business with you can I trust you? during
my service in Iraq I was rewarded with the sum of $15,000,000.00 USD I
invested this funds in Iraq because I never wanted my team to know about
this at all because of jealousy I had to keep this secret to myself
alone.

Not until last week I heard from the owner of the company that the
company will be shutting down.

That they are disbursing funds back to the investors of the company
that their correspondent bank is First National Bank of South Africa
that a document will be sent to me.

So that I can forward it to the bank and my funds will be wired to any
account overseas due to my job now I can't do anything right now and I
don't want the funds to be on my name because I am still serving here in
Kabul Afghanistan.

That is the reason why I am contacting you so that I can put my trust
in you. The funds I invested were $15,000,000.00 USD but now I am
getting $35,000.000.00 USD.

I invested this funds for 4 years, I want to know if you can do this I
am ready to give you 15% of net amount which is involve and I will
appreciate it more if you can invest this funds on my behalf can you?

Let me know if you are willing to help me so that I can send you my ID
CARD and a photo so you will know who you are doing business with.

I will need this information below:

Name:
Address:
Phone Number:
Occupation:

Hoping to read back from you,

Sgt. Nathan Mace.

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