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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: "Michel Kazatchkine" (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:25:05 +0100
Subject: New Proposals.

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Geneva Secretariat
Chemin de Blandonnet 8
1214 Vernier
Geneva, Switzerland
18th,March 2010.

Dear beneficiary,

The Global HIV/AIDS Initiative worldwide funded by the President Emergency Plan for AIDS relief(PEPFAR) is seeking for interested partners,individuals,groups or non-governmental organizations across the globe capable of disbursement of funds totaling USD$2.4billion dollars being the second largest sum earmarked for the control of HIV/AIDS at global HIV/AIDS Initiative supported ART and PMTCT sites worldwide.

Funds are expected to be made available through the individual,groups or non governmental organization to the following organization funded by PEPFAR,such as FHI,GLRA,HUCE/PACE,Institute of human virology.
This is the ninth time the Global fund has approved new proposals to support programmes fighting the three diseases AIDS,Tuberculosis and Malaria.
The largest sum was US$2.75billion approved under round 8 in 2008 and in total,since it was created in 2002,the Global fund has now approved funding of US$18.4billion for 144 countries.

The interested would be implementing partners should kindly fill and send the following form to the
Chairman of Board,Global Fund
Dr.Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Email:unitedfoundation35@gmail.com

Please enter all the information below in BLOCK LETTERS.

Full Name:.........................................
Address:...........................................
Sex:..................................................
City:..................................................
Country:............................................
Phone:..............................................
Age:..................................................
Occupation/Organization:......................................

This notification is valid if you send your information immediately to the chairman of board for verification and directives on the release of fund.

Yours faithfully,
Michel Kazatchkine.
Executive Director GF.

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