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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: Steve <steveberchtold29@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 13:43:02 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: Joint Venture Proposal


Date: June 09, 2014

Attn.: The Managing Director

RE: Joint Venture Proposal / Partnerships to Build a Sustainable Tomorrow.


Dear Sir/Madam,

I seek investment partner. My name is Steve: I mandated by the oil-rich Prime Minister to relocate the capital funds abroad for massive commercial investment. A joint venture (JV) with total investment of $455M US Dollars: Could your site/business, community be the next quality location for any of the following sectors?

SECTORS:
•Infrastructure sectors
•Real estate - building in urban & rural areas/ Multi-storey, churches, residential, commercial, institutional.
•Energy
•Stock
•Cement plants
•Agricultural industry
•Investment banking
•LNG and mining field
•Gas plants, pipelines & terminals sector
•Petroleum supply
•Construction equipment lease
•Fabrication
•Transportation
•Telecommunications
•Blood pumping organ medical Foundation;

OUR INQUIRY: Do you have wide range of professional experience to any of the deal mentioned above? What is possible in your area? Our-client is interested in any profitable business, marketable property that can generate up-to 10% to 50% annually income to the USD economy…Additionally, are you looking to raise major funds for your project??

Send your business plan, perhaps your suggestion will be accepted with honor whether we can team together and have a long-term partnership confidential agreement memorandum of understanding (MoU) sign with my-client Financial Officer (FO). We hope to receive excellent direction from you shortly. Please post or e-mail your profession track record to us for our review and we will revert back to you with more facts.

Brief biography, I have a degree in Finance from the University of Sheffield City Polytechnic, UK in 1987, and in 1994, I joined the Middle East and Central Asian Foreign Bank in the International Finance Department, I participated in tasks involving: international loan agreements, Oil & Gas project finance. I settled in Switzerland and UK.

Again, if you have investments experience/project that need investor please feel free to contact me at the email provided at the end of this letter. I remain available to speak with you and we can schedule our face-to-face meeting discussion. I greatly appreciate your time in reading through the details of this proposal. Now, you are the only person I contacted; please give me a swift answer.

Thank you for the consideration.

Sincerely,
Steve Berch (Mr)
Sustainable Development Project – Partner needed.
Steve Berch | Consultant | Email: steveberch.adviser@yahoo.co.uk
PO Box 426 Chemin Rieu 18 – CP319 – CH - 1211,
Geneve 16 -Switzerland
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