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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: "John Pike" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <investmentmanager82@yahoo.com.mx>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:07:02 -0700
Subject: SEEKING FOR GOOD JV & INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY

To you,

Our entity is an International Business consulting firm doing business in UK region. We specialize in searching for potential investments for our high net-worth clients/investors worldwide.
Our visualization is based upon securing and safe guarding our client’s interests in order to achieve the maximum return on their investments (ROI). Do you have around you any good investment
opportunity that will require funding and do you also have the managerial skill to mange such if funds are provided based on partnership, if so, let us know. Our investors are seeking minimum
investment of 5M euros - maximum 500MEuros in the areas of Hotel, Resort, Agriculture, Health Care, Hospitals, Entertainment, Air transport, General Construction, Petroleum, Solar Energy
and many more that can promise yearly or quarterly good return for the investor.

We have recently received a request from some of our Investors/client and they are currently looking for a profitable project to invest funds into that will generate a substantial profit via
Joint Venture (JV), Equity Participation or via direct loan. For loans, interest rate will be fixed at 5.5% yearly without any prepayment penalty. All fees are paid during closing, no upfront fees.

If you have project or business intent that requires huge funds to finance, kindly contact us with your brief executive summary or brief business plan/ description of the business to enable us
discuss more as to enter into MOU.

Should this be of interest to you, do not hesitate to e-mail us back for further information.

We take this opportunity to thank you for taking the time to read the contents of this email.
Kind regards,

John Pike
JERSEY - Channel Islands

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