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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: "Bruce Brand" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <brandbruce@yandex.ru>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 16:00:08 +0100
Subject: Hello greetings from Syria ,

From: Bruce Brand
Hello greetings from Syria ,
My name is Bruce Brand, I am an White Helmets volunteers rescue group stationed in Syria civil war rescue mission and I have very discreet matter that I want discuss with you. I have to contact you through email because that is your only contact info with me here in Syria and besides it's the only confidential means I can use to communicate with you because of the secrecy of the matter.
There is a Safe Box containing US Dollars that amounted $57Million I discovered in in a Mortgage firm in Syria .Upon the discovery, the safe was buried underground because I cannot make use of the money here or transfer it to anywhere hence I decided to bury it and look for means to move it to overseas from Syria .
Since then I have been looking for opportunity to move the safe out of Syria not until recently I got connection to move the safe/money out of Syria safely through a Diplomatic immunity to Istanbul Turkey and I am contacting you to assist and co-operate with me to receive the safe and deposit the money in your account/custody for safekeeping pending when we quite Syria soonest I will travel to meet with you for us to split the money as we may agree in percentage.
Furthermore, I need to complete this arrangement and maneuver the safe out of Syria immediately because according to Pentagon General our gradual withdrawal from Syria will commence soonest and I want to make sure that the safe is moved out of the shores of Syria without any delay because I will be among the first or second batch to leave because the withdrawal will be done in gradual process as first come First to leave.
For more information and further discuss on modelity and benefit condition, reply this mail with your direct telephone # or wrote and indicate time to call for us to discuss more in details and seal the deal.
Waiting your earliest possible reply.
Kind regards,
Bruce Brand

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