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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: "General Finance Services" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <gfs.che104136113@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 04:33:12 -0700
Subject: Re: Inquiry

Sir/Madam,
We are finance and investment consultant here in Switzerland. We provide financial services, asset management, brokerage of transactions and also deliver personalized financial services to companies, corporate bodies, organizations, and trust, private and high net- worth individuals. We are also into the provision of short term and long term funding for both small and large scale businesses. Funds are purely earned from private and corporate investment portfolios without criminal origin. Most importantly we provide Bank instruments such as Bank Guarantee, SBLC,MT103,DLC,LC, Euro clear, MTN and Confirm-able Bank Draft (CBD), which can be engaged into all kinds of projects. With our bank instrument you can establish line of credit with your bank or secure loans for your projects in which our bank instrument will serve as a collateral in your bank to fund your project, we work directly with issuing bank lease providers,this Instrument can be monetized on your behalf for 100% fun ding. Our leasing rates depends o
Dieter Egloff
Director,
General Finance Services AG.

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