419 scam: "Mic Paulson"<micpaulson1@gmail.com> INVESTMENT IN YOUR COUNTRY

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mic Paulson"<micpaulson1@gmail.com>
Reply-To: <paulsonmic@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 01:51:41 -0500
Subject: INVESTMENT IN YOUR COUNTRY

Good Day,

How are you, This is Mic Paulson Please i Made some sale of used Rail scraps R50 (GOST 7173-75), 51.67kg/M, and R65 (GOST 8165-75), 64.72kg/M, and HMS 80/20 And made some money i wanted to invest in Europe or America i don't know if you can be of help to me ..

I have about 45.8 Million Euro In Bank in Europe Affiliated bank to Access Bank Plc i need a very good and honest business person that will help me to invest this money into an Real Estate Business or Industrial Products or any other good business even Hotel Business,,

As you know that i work with this company as one of the directors On Used Rail and Hms 1 &2 Company as Civil Savant, i get this money over an invoice price of 645,000mts of used rail we supply to America company with an agent that contacted the buyer to our Company ,

And my company don't know any thing about this over invoice from the agents since 6 months now, I need your help to enable me move this money into any save account to set up a new and Good Business in Europe or America or any country where the money will be invested with out any problem from the Government ,,

Note that since this money was deposited with The bank by the buyers i was not permitted to withdraws from the bank as civil servant and i am not permitted to have an account with more than $20,000 and i told the bank that this money belong to my business partner who will contact them soon for the transferring of the fund into any of his/her account, and since then the bank has been waiting for any of my business partner that will call for the fund which i wanted you to stand for.

Please Note that the true nature of this transaction has nothing to do with your personal business and is risk free..as every related documents for this transaction is covered will be send to you as time permit .... Contact me for more information and also the information of the bank .

Mic Paulson

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