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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: rachelloancooperative@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:53:04 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Mrs Rachel has sent you We Are A Google Apps for Business Authorised Reseller


===================================================================== THE MEDIA TANK
http://www.thmediatank.com
=====================================================================
We Are A Google Apps for Business Authorised Reseller

As business processes have become more distributed, with not only
employees working from home but also using multiple devices to access
business systems such as email, the traditional model of serving email
along-side a website has become largely unmanagable. Google Apps for
Business primarily allows us to offer our clients a hosted and
redundant email service with large amounts of data, enabling cross
device syncing and sharing at a very attractive price point.

We can fully support our clients in the transition and ongoing use of
Google Apps for a single annual fee. Please contact us for more
details.

The rest of this message can be read at:
http://themediatank.com/blog/2011/02/04/we_are_a_google_apps_for_business_authorised_reseller/

NAME
===Mrs Rachel

EMAIL
====rachelloancooperative@hotmail.com

PERSONAL MESSAGE
===============Good day to you, I am Mrs Rachel Gibson a business loan company

investor, we offer loans to individuals who are desperately need

loans of all kinds. anyone who is really interested in applying for a

loan quick loan.business, we offer the following business loans,

student loans, house loan, car loans, etc at a low interest rate of
3%

contact us now at rachelloancooperative@hotmail.com and please do take
out time to fill out the loan application form below:



Loan Application Form



Name____________________

Country__________________

Loan Amount Needed______________

Phone Number____________

Occupation________________

Civil Status______________

Sex______________________

Monthly Income___________

House Address_____________

Purpose To Loan____________

Zip Code___________________

Loan Duration_______________



Note that you are to fill the application form with the correct data
so that we can look into your loan request.Thanks

and God bless you all (amen).

Email: rachelloancooperative@hotmail.com

Mrs Rachel




Submitted: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:53:04 +0000

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