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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: James Smith Perry <doratykazi001@gmail.com>
Reply-To: smithjamesperry04@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 15:04:44 +0000
Subject: I need your urgent Assistance.

I need your urgent Assistance.

How is life over there, hope you and your family are fine, am fine over
here in Syria. Let me start by introducing my self to you, my name is
Captain Smith James a US Citizen, from Charlotte, North Carolina considers
Portland Oregon, i Graduated from Parkrose Senior High School, Portland
Oregon, i am 52 years old single, Presently i am in Syria at war zone for
peace keeping mission due to the WAR going on here in Syria.

Dear, i have my reasons to contact you as i have something very important
to share with you. I wish to start a very strong friendship with you and my
friendship with you will brings a lot of great changes in your life. I want
you to understand that friendship dose not count distance and age, maybe
we can start as good friends or we can go into business partnership with my
funds which i need to invest with urgent assistance.

Friend, as i informed you about something very important to share with you.
Listen to this, during one of our rescue mission with my Military groups
to West Africa, the Government awarded us with a huge amount for our
contract and my share was $2.5 million Dollars, right now i am seeking your
assistance to evacuate my share of the money, which is $2.5 million Dollars
to your place as quickly as possible, at the moment i am deeply afraid of
losing the funds, dear if you can assure me that my funds will be safe in
your care until I complete my service here in the next few months. there
are no risks involved.

Dear, due to my position in service, i keep the funds in a treasure box and
deposited it to the Security company as family items, i don't have bank
account here and due to my position in services, I can't transfer the fund
because all our activities are monitored, also our military communication
here are only radio message and internet facilities. To avoid losing the
funds here due to level of crisis everyday, i have made a solid
arrangements with the Security company, they agreed and promised to send
their diplomat to deliver the treasure box to any destination of my choice.

Dear, i need your urgent assistance and as you assist me receive the fund,
i shall be compensating you with 40% of the total fund personally, while
the remaining balance shall be my investment capital in your City which
will still be under your control until i meet you, dear i plead you not to
discuss this issue to a third party, if you have any reasons to reject this
offer, please delete all my email conversation with you because any leakage
of this information will be very dangerous for me considering my position
in services.

Dear, i prayers and I believe you will not betray my confidence, but rather
take me as your own blood Brother or your business partner as the fund will
be invest under your control. Although you may wonder why I am so soon
revealing myself to you without knowing you so deeply, it is better i
reveal it to you and you help me, than losing the funds here out of my
ignores, i have so much fear in me because i have survived two bomb attack
here, so i need your urgent assistance.

Thanks and remain bless, your urgent reply will be highly appreciated, my
email address is ( smithjamesperry04@gmail.com
) I hope my explanation is very clear but if you need further
clarification, then send your questions, I expect to hear from you soonest,
always taken good care of yourself and also put me in your daily prayers.

Yours Faithfully
Mr. Smith James

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