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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: "wilson William" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <wilsonwilliams488@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 12:40:23 +0100
Subject: INVESTMENT PROPOSAL

My name is Wilson william, I work as a business/financial consultant here in London. I also am connecting with a private investor/direct lenders from Africa trying to expanding international portfolio globally, and they are available to lend/fund a reliable project after receiving and studying business plan of that project.

My investors would be happy to work with any person, entity with a reputable company or any organization with a project and very eloquent about his project. These projects may either be oil and gas, real estate, mining, farming, resort and transport. This also include funds and organization. etc

My investor can funding your organization or finance your project 100% and this can be inform contribution in cash or according to your wishes for your project anywhere in the world, especially in, Turkey, U.A.E. Saudi Arabia Germany, India, US, Australia, Canada, China, India. etc.

In case my investor may want to be shareholder or partner in the whole project, but he will finance the project to or funding your organization 100% completion, so you would be mandated to monitor and manage the entire project.

My investor has a capacity that can support any size of project. Having gone through you profile, your website and your post I will be willing to introduce any one of them to you but I still want you to tell me more about what other things that your company does and what you have on the ground at the moment.
Regards.

Wilson William

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