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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: "Maj.Swenson William" <myuse0@tim.it>
Reply-To: swensonwd@outlook.com
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 01:24:10 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Re: Hello Dear

Hello Dear Friend

How are you today? I discovered you today during my research on internet

it seems to me that you are a very sincere person i want to use this means to
inform you that I have a business proposal for you.

I am a Major with the United Nations troop, i was retired after I served one
tour in Iraq and two tours in Afghanistan i was not called back to duty when
the Libya crisis went out of control, so now we have been transferred to Libya,
on war against terrorism. Based on the United States legislative and executive
decision, for withdrawing troops from Libya. Our mission is to help beef up
terrorist targeted states, mostly the United States and the European Union on
war against
terrorism.

On the other hand I want to inform you that I have in my possession the sum of
($21.4million U.S.D) Which I got from crude oil deal here in Iraq and also my
entitlement funds from UN as a member of NATO. I deposited this money in
WoodForest National Bank USA informing them that we are making contact for the
real owner of the cash money. It is under my power to approve who so ever that
comes forth for this cash money. I want to invest the money in your country as
soon as I am deployed for a good business, anyway you will advice me on that
since I am not a business person. I will be in your country for about 3years
for my investments over there, so I need someone I could trust. If you accept i
will transfer the money to you.

And you will be the beneficiary because I am a uniformed person and I cannot be
parading such an amount so I need to present someone as the beneficiary. I am
an American and an intelligence officer so to say, I have a 100% authentic
means of transferring the money to you with good arrangement from the Wood
Forest Bank USA as i present you to them. I
just need your acceptance and trust, and then all is done. Please if you are
interested in this transaction I will give to you the complete details you need
for us to carry out this transaction successfully, I decided to find someone
that is real and not imaginary and that is why I went for a secured 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 much secured so nobody can monitor our conversation, then I
can explain in details to you at the moment i can only reach you through email,
because our calls might be monitored, i just have to be sure of whom I am
dealing with. I will give to you 30% of the sum and 70% is for me. I hope am
been fair on this deal, get back to me with your full information such as:

Your Full Name--------------------------
Your Full Address-----------------------
Your Direct Cell phone Number----------------------
Occupation and Age---------------------------------------
Bank Details-------------------------

If you are interested please send me your personal details for further
information 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 e-mail and please
delete this message, if no response after 7days I will then search for someone
else. I wait for your contact details so we can go on.

Regards,
Major Swenson William

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