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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: "Mr.A. Jacouris" <jacantonis001@videobank.it>
Reply-To: jacantonis@videobank.it
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 03:46:21 -0500
Subject: INVESTMENT PROPOSAL...



Attention:

Respectfully, I am Mr. Antonio Jacouris; a Financial Consultant.I
contacted you
in respect of my client who is interested in investing in your country
and seek
for your partnership to invest into the areas of infrastructure
assets, such as
real estates, haulage transportation and tourism.

This client who is currently under house arrest is an anti-communist
Leader and
was an important figure in the past administration in his home country is
currently undergoing some political persecutions, harassments and probes
because of his opposition to the policies of the new government so he
will like
his name to be protected for now. Based on the above facts, I was mandated by
his Attorney to inform you of his desire to entrust you with some funds to
invest into any of the above fields.

So my question to you now is as follows:-

1. Are you ready to receive and invest this fund on behalf of my client?
2. Can you supervise the investment on behalf of my clients?
3. Can you handle this million dollar project?

If your answers to the above questions are YES, then you should get back to me
so that the sum of $44.6M will be channeled to you under a special and secure
payment arrangement. So, if you can receive and invest this fund, kindly reply
me with your acceptance letter, phone number and brief information about
yourself so that I can give you more information?s on how we can proceed.

Best regards,

Mr. Antonio Jacouris.

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