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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: "Mrs. Ranchoux Mandy" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ranchouxmandy@1email.eu>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 18:03:57 +0100
Subject: Re: Investment/Project Funding.

From : Mrs. Ranchoux Mandy Office

We provide an offer BG, MTN , LC, DLC , SBLC from top 25 rating bank project funding amount: USD/euro 5 Million to USD/euro 50 Billion all our instruments are specifically for lease. POF Delivering via Swift MT760 within 4 to 5 banking days after the contract signed and issuing banks with our Leasing price of (2.0% only ) of face value of the instrument.

GENUINE BANK GUARANTEES (BG) AND STANDBY LETTER OF CREDIT (SBLC) FOR LEASE AT THE LOWEST RATES AVAILABLE. OTHER FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS SUCH AS MTN, CD, DLC, AND PB ARE ALSO AVAILABLE.

We offer certifiable and verifiable bank instruments via Swift Transmission from a genuine provider capable of taking up time bound transactions.

More more information's - Reply back ,

Kindly reach the following for procedure and terms. :

Mrs. Ranchoux Mandy

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