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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: "Joel" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jopicard04@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:41:00 -0000
Subject: Season Offer

Sir/Madam,

Do you have a project that needs to be funded ? or do you need a business loan, personal loan, home loan, auto loan, student loan, debt consolidation loan, unsecured loan, venture capital etc, or were you refused a loan by a bank or any financial institution for one or more reasons?

Your loan solutions/project funding is right here! We are loan brokers and we facilitate loans
to companies and individuals at a low and affordable interest rate of 3%.

Interested? Contact us for the follow up processing of the loan and transfer within 7 working days;
We can help finance your projects that you were unable to finish or execute due to lack of fund.

We hope to hear from you.

Regards

Joel Picard

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