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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: "Prof Ahmed Mohd Saif" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ahmedmohdsaif@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 17:38:56 +0200
Subject: Private Investment Portfolio

Dear Sirs,

I am Prof Ahmed Mohd Saif,We are a Gulf region base investment company working on expanding our investment portfolio globally. We are into debt funding(Loan) and we have the financial muscle to fund projects between $500k-$700 million USD at 6% ROI as DEBT/SOFT LOAN and not equity.

If you have any viable project we can finance and partner together by making financial investment in form of debt financing and we would be please to receive a comprehensive business plan and executive summary of the project from your company for our review, Approval and possible funding.

Allah Blessings,

Prof Ahmed Mohd Saif
Executive Co-ordinator International Investments
Skype: details.alzahrawi
Email:ahmedmohdsaif@gmail.com

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