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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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Fraud email example:

From: Mr. Wolfgang Enggruber <ppc.chamber.associate@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 09:56:05 -0700
Subject: PROPOSAL FROM ECONOMIC CONSULTANT FIRM GERMANY !!!


I would like to introduce ourselves today to you. We are an economy
consultant firm here in Germany dealing with international clients all over
the world in economic, financial and investment, as well as real estate
issues. So we also deal with law firms, tax consultants, notaries and other
companies in West Africa as well. At the moment we assist a client in Ghana,
having a considerable huge asset up to 85 Mio. US $ which need to be
invested all over the world. Another package of 158 million US$ is also
waiting there to be handled as well. For security reasons this amount has
been transferred into my account at the Central Bank of Ghana in Accra ready
to be invested into interested parties and their projects after presenting
necessary funds to this bank.



One of our lawyers, with whom we deal frequently in Accra, Barr. Ishmail
Adams, Esq., has the mandate to monitor this investment at this time. We are
acting and cooperate in his name and on his behalf as we are under contract
with him. He gave me your contact and asked us to contact you in this
matter.



For now to make these funds get into proper investment schemes we are in
need of a further investment of any amount that might be possible for you or
the total necessary amount of 580.000,00 €. What we can offer you,
unconditional and on a free basis and thus free of any obligation for the
undersigned, is an immediate profit of additional 100 % of your investment
within four (4) weeks and an annual profit of 10 % of your investment for
the next 15 years to come of your invested money into our investment plan.
We also would appreciate your help in investing these funds in your local
area primarily, if you are interested. Our profit expectations for our
investment there would be something like 15 % per annum, if you don't mind.



For now our plan is to invest the above 243 Mio. US $ into various asset
classes. At the moment a Canadian real estate fond is available, a German
industry investment fund is ready for us, a German investment fond trading
house is prepared for us and finally a Swiss capital investment and asset
trading house is available for our funds above where we will go into pro
rata. This investment mixture guarantees us more than enough annual profit
to secure your annual profits as well. If you got more questions to our
plans feel free to contact us.



To discuss this issue we like to invite you for a skype video phone
conference with the undersigned and / or with Mr. Adams. Also, if you like,
we are invited to fly into Accra to meet Mr. Adams personally for personal
discussions and to sign a possible contract, stipulating all necessary
details about your investment. We would be very much obliged to get positive
news from you very soon in this matter. However, if you feel this investment
request doesn’t match into your investment asset classes but you know
somebody that is interested and capable for our request you are invited to
contact him or her or send us his communication data so that we may contact
him regarding this issue. For further questions to this business proposal
please feel free to call my cell phone +49 157 3650 743 Thank you very
much.



We agree of course to see us face to face to discuss all the above matters
personally; however we propose that we first have a skype video phone
conference to introduce ourselves and to discuss first issues via skype.
Please let me know when we can arrange for this and also when you would be
available for a personal meeting. Thank you very much.

Best Regards,

Mr. Wolfgang Enggruber.

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