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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: "Mike Lavigne Den" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mikelavden@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 07:24:36 -0800
Subject: UREGENT RESPONSE

I'm privileged to share this opportunity with you.

I am Mike Lavigne Den from United state of America .

The secret is this , when the coalition forces raided and besieged Saddam Husein in 2003 the soldiers who conducted the campaign discovered $620,000.000.00 Million dollars in 100 notes of each
booklet, my father was the 1st Lieutenant at the time among the 3rd Infantry that invaded him in the Bunker, it was a very tough and blood rain day, they had to make a quick decision within themselves which was adopted by their General, because they had lost many soldiers in
this battle in the hands of tyrants and terrorists and at the end they complained that they got just a toothpaste of glory without a good
financial reward, now my father said that i should look for a capable hand to move his own fund to his country for investment.

They knew that the people who actually enjoy the soldiers victory are government executives, intelligent offices and politicians who are the
cooperate bodies that receive any fund which were recovered from war and that is the end , they will never have any further information
regarding the money again.
In the past many soldiers were mentally ill or had one terminal illness as the outcome of war but in so many occasion Government
ignores them without giving appropriate care and attention to the needy soldiers which have been demobilized as a result of war , this
had led to death of many soldiers.

As wise they could be they quickly shifted the Fund to a safe location without the attention of the NATO or United Nation, there was a leak
that such money was discovered and my father whose name was among 5 soldiers that were summoned before the Panel , he spent 6 six months
on probation and at the end they could not source information out from them.


Their General had his way with United Nation and the top executives were settled with part of the money and the case was axed .
and my father moved his share to Asia some to United State through a British diplomat by name Christopher Phillips his office exercises
immunity, he gave him $3Million dollars as his benefit and he deposited the money for him.


After the conversion in the bank his money amount to $85.490.000.00 Millions US Dollars, he have not transacted in the account because of
his statue as a Marine soldier. In 2006 he was redeployed to Iraq and he died in 2007 in Iraq in a terrorist attack, since then this money
has remained in the bank without anyone transacting on the account as my father and me as next Kin all i need is capable hand so i will
transfer the fund to him and fly to his country and he will help me invest and open country i will give you 30% of the money if you will
help me.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm


This link will give you more details about this money and what happened in Iraq.

I have all information regarding this money and am willing to send them to you , but remember that you should not let anyone know about
this , it should remain a top secret,


Once you are capable and Ready to work with me i will send you full details, kindly contact me. Through my Email ( mikelavden@gmail.com )
God bless you
Regard
Mike Lavigne Den

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