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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: "Ssgt John C. Carey" <johncarey@gmail.com>
Reply-To: johnccarey183@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 08:08:02 +0000
Subject: Hello Friend


Hello My Dear,
How are you doing over there today, I hope that everything is okay
with you? I'm so sorry for bothering you with my problem but i thought
i should let you know about this because i believe you will have to
understand my siautation for serving the nation and protecting you. we
were told on the presence of a sudden some Shia militant camp on the
outskirts of town not too far from our camp here in Syria, resulting
in a gun battle with them, two of six people were killed and three
were seriously injured, the remaining militants fled. Unfortunately, I
lost two people in my unit. In the process of interrogating the rebels
were wounded, they claimed to be a rebel to Muqtada Al-Sadr and took
us to a cave where we recovered 20 foot containers of ammunition and
cash in United States Currency, We are ten remaining soldiers who made
the attack, my own share of the money is $ 4,000,000 million dollars)
here in Syria, we just send the money through the diplomat, why say
this is because I believe in you and you are a real Muslim or
Christian, my family members very evil that wants to kill me if I send
this money to them, so afraid to send this large amount of money to
them to save for me, the money I give you 50% on the money, helping me
and saving the remaining money to me. As a military officer, I can not
show off with such amount of cash it needs to get honest people who
will receive the funds on my behalf to our assignment in Syria will be
concluded in the next six months. here in our camp we could only
communicate through our military communication facilities and all
calls are monitored and will be the best way to communicate via email
or here on facebook, It is very important that you keep the details to
yourself. The maximum secrecy is what I need from you to successfully
complete the delivery found your destination ,,,,,,,,,,,, send me your
complete address, full name, and phone number

Yours Sincerely,
Ssgt John Carey
--
Hello My Dear,
How are you doing over there today, I hope that everything is okay
with you? I'm so sorry for bothering you with my problem but i thought
i should let you know about this because i believe you will have to
understand my siautation for serving the nation and protecting you. we
were told on the presence of a sudden some Shia militant camp on the
outskirts of town not too far from our camp here in Syria, resulting
in a gun battle with them, two of six people were killed and three
were seriously injured, the remaining militants fled. Unfortunately, I
lost two people in my unit. In the process of interrogating the rebels
were wounded, they claimed to be a rebel to Muqtada Al-Sadr and took
us to a cave where we recovered 20 foot containers of ammunition and
cash in United States Currency, We are ten remaining soldiers who made
the attack, my own share of the money is $ 4,000,000 million dollars)
here in Syria, we just send the money through the diplomat, why say
this is because I believe in you and you are a real Muslim or
Christian, my family members very evil that wants to kill me if I send
this money to them, so afraid to send this large amount of money to
them to save for me, the money I give you 50% on the money, helping me
and saving the remaining money to me. As a military officer, I can not
show off with such amount of cash it needs to get honest people who
will receive the funds on my behalf to our assignment in Syria will be
concluded in the next six months. here in our camp we could only
communicate through our military communication facilities and all
calls are monitored and will be the best way to communicate via email
or here on facebook, It is very important that you keep the details to
yourself. The maximum secrecy is what I need from you to successfully
complete the delivery found your destination ,,,,,,,,,,,, send me your
complete address, full name, and phone number

Yours Sincerely,
Ssgt John Carey

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