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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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Fraud email example:

From: "malik harod" <malikharod410@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 01:37:11 +0000
Subject: Investment and Cooperation Opportunity.

Investment and Cooperation Opportunity.

The purpose of this letter is to introduce ourselves to you, we are a West
African Business Consultancy, offering business advisor services in the
region, we are not a very big company, but when suddenly confronted with the
task of investing funds in your country exceeding our capacity we decided to
seek a partner, because we have never done business in your country.

We are brokering an Investment deal in your country on behalf of a client of
our firm. This deal will involve the eventual investment of USD 25 M.(Twenty
Five Million Dollars) in your country.

We are by this letter offering you our partnership, so as to allow us have
you
as representative and manager of invested funds in your country. Since we
can
not determine if this email is still functional and also your willingness we
have kept this proposal brief.

If you are interested in this offer of partnership, please respond and give
us
your full contact details (as preferred for this interaction) plus
company profile and in response we will send you an elaborate proposal and
details of this offer.

Your expedient response will be appreciated.

Thank you.

MALIK HAROD.

N.B

All further correspondent from you concerning this transaction should be
forwarded to malik_harod@hotmail.ro

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