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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: "Miller Bleh" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <perrcn@yahoo.cn>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:06:50 +0530
Subject: FINANCING YOUR PROJECT

United Oversea Financial Organization
Business Town Maharashtra India

Are you finding it difficult to pay your bills or are you having problem financing your business project,
do you need financial assistance to do your business transactions? contact us immediately.

United Overseas Financial Organization offers loan of any magnitude of funds, helping business, hospitals, schools,
and all kind of company to stand on their own grounds existence.

We provide loan advisory portal of personal loan, home loan, business loan, mortgage loan, project loan and private loan for builders, hotels, colleges, hospital, companies etc.

Amount applied for must be $20,000 USD to $500 MILLION USD +. our loan interest rate is 3% of the total capital

If you are interested kindly respond to this message immediately.

Regards,
Miss Bleh
Advert Director

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