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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Dr Richard Coleman" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <finmgtserv@mynet.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 18:33:21 +0100
Subject: Confirm Your Capability

Global Disaster relief agency
Office: 10 snow hill, London
EC1A, 2A1, England 96 DX
London, City.

Dear Confidant,

I do crave your indulgence in communicating with you in this manner as this is not naturally the best way of presenting such an offer of enormous mutual benefit.
For your introduction my name is Dr Richard Coleman and i am a member of the board of trustees of the Global Disaster relief agency.
My Agency has been saddled with the responsibility to alleviate the sufferings of nations experiencing natural disasters ranging from hurricane infestations in the americas to educationaland technological issues in Africa.

We have a yearly funding from IFC(The international finance corporation)a well known and established financial conglomerate of about $200,000,000.00 (Two hundred million united states dollars).

My reason for contacting you is to know if you can partner with us in a business partnership as my colleagues and i have decided to process and transfer the sum of $75,000,000.00 (seventy five million united states dollars) for the purpose of investment.

Our intention is that if we have a viable partner in you,we shall process the funds in your name or company name.As a member of the board of trustees i can facilitate the inclusion of your name to the list of new awardees of the grant and you would be expected to make supplies to areas designated to you.

On receipt of the funds we are to jointly agree on a very viable investment we can go into together.This would range from agriculture,technological investments. to real estate.
The idea is that we intend to return the capital of $75,000,000,00 (seventy five million united states dollars)back to the agencies account before our financial year end.

The profit that would emanate from the business would be shared between us.We as initiators of the transaction would have a fair share of 80% while you as the custodian of the funds as well as manager of the funds for investments would have 20%.

Please understand that i am contacting you only because of the fact we cannot do this alone,given our status and position as members of the board of trustees.

We are also very aware of the proliferation of emails on the internet soliciting for funds transfer.We strongly advise you that this is not one of those emails as this is purely a business proposal that requires a lot of trust and hardwork.

We would also employ you to discard this mail if you feel uninterested in this partnership.This been that we are still career civil servants and we do have personal and family responsiblities.We would not want to jopardise our many years of service.
please do get back to me with suggestions on how best we can invest this money,for our mutual benefit.
I do hope to hear from you soonest.

Yours truly

Dr Richard Coleman

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