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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: "Mr. Leon Witter" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <leon_witter@outlook.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 19:23:48 +0200
Subject: JOINT INVESTMENT IN YOUR COUNTRY

Dear friend,

Our names is Mr. Leon Witter & Mr. Joao Guedes we work with APPEX SERVICE a sister company to a muti-national finance company based here in the London and I am an American citizen. I have a business
proposition of Ten million United State Dollars ($USD10, 000, 000 .00) for you to handle with me from my financial desk.

We will need you to assist my colleague and I in executing this business project and consequently invest this money in your country or Malaysia.

We need to know if you will be able to handle a business transaction involving this amount of money after, which we will go into details to explain the simple detail of realizing this objective without delays. Should you be interested please reconfirm your names in full, private phone/ fax and contact address and scan copy of your international passport or driver license for identity.


Please send your urgent response immediately for me to commence on the proceeding of our deal.

Kind Regards

MR. LEON WITTER & MR. JOAO GUEDES
PLEASE REPLY TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS: mr.leon_witter@yahoo.com






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