Syrian raid loot consignment scam

Scams
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So this scam starts off with someone (Maybe French) giving you a sophomore thesis length explanation of how he is a French-American sergeant who had just gotten a huge load of cash (roughly $4 million, not that it matters) after raiding some place in Syria. He said that after Biden had been elected he had to be transferred to a disclosed location. He had come to the conclusion that it would be wise to consign 25% of the money to me after “Close and careful inspection” of my linkedin profile (That’s $1 million. I’m rich! ᵖˡᵉᵃˢᵉ ᵏⁿᵒʷ ᵗʰᵃᵗˢ ᵃ ʲᵒᵏᵉ). Anyway he goes on about how I could use the money to move to the US and other stuff.

The link below has all of the information about him (so far) and a transcript of the conversation in the form of a google doc. I will be updating this retroactively as I get more information out of him and continue to bait him.

Le doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12GGcjrr4bycRxQGXDmoB9Ujl9LTblZztS-g1hYjSpjY/edit?usp=sharing

This is my first time scambaiting so any tips would be appreciated
(Disclaimer: all of my emails were sent and received in French. I just used the automatic google translate to read it. I did translate it to English in the doc, though.)

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@Cornworld#179848 Hey! You’re looking for tips for scambaiting, right? I would suggest signing up for bobrtc.tel to call scammers, and if you would like to do tech support scammers, you should install VirtualBox, a virtual machine that allows you to work from many different computers.

Hope this helps!
Btw this scam also seems very similar to the Nigerian Prince scam where they pretend to be a Nigerian uncle or something and trying to "transfer" money to your account, when all they're doing is stealing more money from you.

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Cool, this is what’s referred to as a 419 scam, more technically known as Advance Fee Fraud. Keep them on the bait and see what information you can get out of them, such as bank details - From there, you can report it.

A few handy resources if you’re looking to do more of these scams:

https://www.419eater.com/

http://419scam.org/

https://www.fbi.gov/scams-and-safety/common-scams-and-crimes/nigerian-letter-or-419-fraud

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Just filed a report to the ftc