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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: Patrick Williams <capt.patrickwilliam1@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 15:17:46 +0100
Subject: Dear Beloved Friend

Dear Beloved Friend,

I saw your email from searching Engine and i decided to contact you urgent
for this great opportunity between me and you, permit me to introduce
myself to you, I am a captain with the United Nations troop Kabul
Afghanistan, on war against terrorism. Based on the United States
legislative and executive decision for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
come next year, I have been deployed to come and work in your country on
military base soonest. Our mission is to help beef up terrorist targeted
states, mostly on the war against terrorism and i will need a house for
myself & that is why I contacted you.

On the other hand I want to inform you that I have in my possession the sum
of US$45.5Million US.D) Which I got from crude oil deal here in
Afghanistan. I deposited this money with a Red Cross agent informing him
that we are making contact for the real owner of the money. And It is under
my power to approve whoever that comes forth for this consignment.

I want to invest the money in your state as soon as I am deployed into your
state for a good business, anyway you will advice me on that since I am not
a business person. so I need someone I could trust. If you accepted i will
be smuggle to transfer the money to your country where you will be the
beneficiary.

I am a uniformed person and I cannot be parading such an amount, so I need
to present someone to stand as the recipient. I am an American and an
intelligence officer and for that so I have a 100% authentic means of
transferring the money through diplomatic courier service. I just need your
acceptance and all is done.

Please if you are interested in this transaction I will give to you the
complete details that you need for us to carry out this transaction
successfully, i decided to find someone that is for real and not imaginary
and that is why I went to a secured web site, where I can be sure that the
person is real. I believe I can trust you. Where we are now we can only
communicate through our military communication facilities which is secured
so nobody can monitor our emails, then I can explain in details to you will
only reach you through email, because our calls might be monitored but have
to be sure whom I am dealing with.

If you are interested please send me your personal mobile number so I can
call you for further Inquiry when I am out of our military network am
writing from a fresh email account so if you are not interested do not
reply to this email and please delete this message, if not response after
3days I will then search for someone else.

I wait for your contact details so we can go on.I will give to you 40% of
the sum and 60% is for me. I hope I am been fair on this deal,

Get back to me with your full information:
YOUR FULL NAME.........
YOUR FULL ADDRESS....................
YOUR DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER........

Regards,

Capt. Patrick Williams
US ARMY
Kabul Afghanistan
capt.patrickwilliam1@gmail.com

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