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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: "Mr.Usman Yusuf" <pprivattee@gmail.com>
Reply-To: usman.yusuf002@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:05:31 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: URGENT PARTNERSHIP..


















Hello,

My name is Mr Usman Yusuf, I am a nationality of Libya and presently in United Kingdom with my fund of Fifteen Million Three Hundred Thousand United State Of American Dollars, I am highly interested to invest so much in your country and search for a good reliable local partner, who i can trust very much with my fund for upward investment, this person will be responsible to investing my fund into a higher yielding Capital Investment also will be responsible to setting up the management company and running it.

My position is to be a Silent Partner to my partner. Let me know so I can able to Instruct my Lawyer to contact with you and discuss further details and planning also to sending you my proposed draft Memorandum of Understanding, for you to study and understand more about my proposal before we can schedule a meeting date for us to meet face to face and discuss more better .
 
You can furnish me your Name, Address and Telephone Number for more discussion.


BEST REGARD,
MR.USMAN YUSUF,
LIBYA 

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