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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: Clive Rolland <clivverolland@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: rolland_clive@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 05:16:10 +0100
Subject: REINVESTMENT FUNDS AVAILABLE



Sir,

Please, I would like to crave your indulgence for my sending you this email
which I very much know is unsolicited and whatever inconveniences it may cause
you, considering its content which may or may not be of interest to you, I
tender my full and unreserved apologies.

I represent a group of individuals whose interface and involvement with
governments necessitate their anonymity and thus cannot under any
circumstances
have direct dealings with individual or corporate establishments to
negotiate or
undertake business/monetary transactions. This you will find to be true in due
course.

However, the object of this email which is also my responsibility is
to source a
reliable individual, who has the clout and discretion to receive and
re-invest a
fund in legitimate businesses and ventures with reasonable return on
investment.
The details and decisions and management of this fund will be entirely left to
you until the fund has been sufficiently re-cycled.

As this is a first time contact with you, I want you to understand the
need for
absolute discretion from my end and also that I am not at liberty to divulge
much information as to the volume of the fund, location and how it will be
received until we have sufficiently been acquainted. In any case, the
source of
the fund is very genuine and legitimate but unofficial, involving
international
excess crude and allied sales.

Please in the event that you are unable to be of assistance, do please ignore
this email and on the other hand, if you think you can align with us, do send
your response and I will give you further details and how we would proceed.

Thank you very much for your time.

Sincerely yours,

Clive Rolland.

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