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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: "James Karl" (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:20:30 +0100
Subject: Project

We are a group of Consortium resided in the U.K, periodically we do organise a conference where we seek for professionals especially in the areas of real estate, Hotels management, Energy and other areas of a lucrative investment for our clients, we have five clients at the moment seeking for fund managers who will be their trustee that can be able to manage and invest their funds for the period between five to ten years in your Country.

We are contacting you because we found your contact through a business lists while we were searching, If you know that you have a wealth of experience to be able to handle a project of this nature kindly get in touch with under sign for more details but if you know you are not capable kindly ignore this Email.

If you are the secretary please direct this Email to the President or CEO of your company, thank you.

Regards,

James Karl.


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