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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: Danny <suporte@avalon.sul.com.br>
Reply-To: dannyoscar11@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 12:43:54 +0100
Subject: Project Loan



--
Good Day,

Are you in need of project finance for your companies, businesses and
organizations? my name is Danny Oscar, a UK based associates for
Emirates Investment Finance Group.
Our principal service is the provision of international project finance
to companies, businesses and organizations for significant land
development projects in the leisure, tourism, entertainment and
construction industries.

Over the last two decades our associates, who are leading international
project financiers in the leisure and tourist industry, have placed over
two billion US dollars ($2,000,000,000.00) of development capital in the
form of equity and loans into an extremely wide variety of projects
including amusement parks, Eco and green projects, golf courses, hotels
and hotel resorts, manufacturing, residential housing, sports stadium,
theme parks, tourism and tourist projects, transport, including rail,
road and shipping, water parks and many other types of project in almost
60 countries worldwide.

For more details do get back to me by email and note that Emirates
Investment Finance Group do not accept applications for less than
$5,000.00 project contract sum.

Danny Oscar .
dannyoscar11@gmail.com
Global Integrated Service

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