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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: LOAN AND PROJECT FUNDING COMPANY <LOAN@COMPANY.COM>
Reply-To: <companyinvestment938@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 01:47:20 +0300
Subject: WE GIVE LOANS AND PROJECT FUNDING



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From: Mr.Bossale Thompson Clark
Director of Operations
Wells/broker & Finance (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd
Address. 1. Marsh B-9-1, Aras 9. Menara B,
Menara UOA Jalan Bangsar Utama 1 59000 Kuala Lumpur
Tel : +601126143201

Attention:

May I introduce who we are to you and your company.

We are commercial loan broker. Our business is to help individuals and
companies get investors and lenders for them. Therefore I wish to invite
you to benefit from the new Loan and Project funding offers that our
clients are giving with flexible terms. To get a loan for your various
projects, We have the capacity to broker the approval of a loan/funding
from up to USD10 Million to 1 USD Billion.

We will handle all the paper-works for you until you get the loan or
investors to invest in your business/project.

Currently our clients are funding businesses and projects:

* Starting up a Franchise
* Business Acquisition
* Business Expansion
* Commercial Real Estate development & purchase
* Contract/Projects Execution
* start up a company

However, whatever your needs are, do contact us at anytime. A trail will
convince you.

For your information, our clients are available for your projects with
over
USD15.billion in their position for private and corporate investment
portfolios.

I hope you will have a chat with me soon on this subject.

Yours sincerely,

Mr.Bossale Thompson Clark
Director of Operations
Wells/broker & Finance (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd

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