419 scam: "Economic Development Board"<molemas4me3@gmail.com> FOREIGN INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM

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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!

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This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Economic Development Board" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <bahraineconomic@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 12:31:04 +0100
Subject: FOREIGN INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM

Bahrain Economic Development Board
7th, 8th, 12th, 13th and 16th floor
Seef Tower
P.O. Box 11299
Manama, Bahrain.

Attention:Sir/ Madam,

FOREIGN INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM

Through the Global Partnership Initiative, Our mission is to grow and
diversify Bahrain Economy by developing a strategy that supports the
advancement of international business investment partnerships to
enable us compete in the global marketplace.

We are dedicated to providing investment funds and create greater
opportunities for our citizens to invest abroad, in business friendly
partnerships. In order to fulfill our leadership role in developing and
delivering the countries new strategy for growth, we have structured
the Bahrain EDB into a number of key activities.

The mission of our Business Development Team is to stimulate growth in key
value-creating sectors of the economy, to seek and make outward investment
in overseas countries. These include sectors such as manufacturing,
banking and financial services, mining, communication, oil and gas,
real estate and aggro-chemical
industries. Bahrain has already been successful in transforming itself
from a fledgling state into a successful and progressive Nation. The
Bahrain EDB is now faced with the next stage
in this transformation, which is designed to create continued prosperity that is
independent of oil wealth.

We want to invest in the economy of your country and partner with your
interested companies to receive investment funds from Bahrain and to
invest such funds in long term projects
that will bring mutual benefit to all involved.

Do provide us with the activities of your company to enable us provide our
investment funds to partner with you.

We await your quick response.

Yours faithfully,
Mr. Pham Hai
Oversea Co-ordinator

For: Mohammed Bin Essa Al-Khalifa
Advisor of Political and Economic Affairs
Bahrain Economic Development Board

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