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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Metal Scrap" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <robertsilapros@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 05:39:39 +0200
Subject: INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY IN METAL SCRAP BUSINESS

Attn: Sir Or Madam
 
How are you, My names are Engineer Robert Sila, The managing director of SYSTEMTECHSCRAPMETALS South Africa
 
I do not know whether this is your area of business but i am just on the look out for partnership to proceed in business, if it’s not no issues but business many at times is all about diversification and it pays.
 
I still have in possession 500,000mt of rails in stock since 2012, I have personally tried to sale these rails right from that 2012 even with the assistance with some colleagues at some point but all to no avail because of lack of some relevant documents which was difficult to acquire due to some government policies which we have tried to overcome. During all this years we have not been in business as the case maybe and that resulted to the company suffering financial in a  lack in minor area to proceed with the sales now.
Finally, the good news is that the documents such as:
1) EXPORT PERMIT/LICENCE
2) TAX CLEARANCE
3) PROOF OF PRODUCT (TITLE DEED).
Are all in place now to export the rails to any buyer across the world that I will forward to you including the video of the rails immediately I see your consent to the deal.
But before I got to this point just like I told you earlier of our financial status, the landlord of the yard (where the rails are deposited) who we rented from has already sealed the yard with a court order. Of cause you can guess what it means not to be in business for all these while.
I came to you with a sort of investment opportunity with us
1)        For us to work as partners and sale this rails but you will have to assist us financially at least to offset the rail yard rent of which that is the main reason I came to you, as partner you will have to get $20 per mt as commission in every sales we make as an EXCLUSIVE SELLER MANDATE, but if the buyer is coming from you, any amount on top as over price of our own price will eventually get back to you still includes the $20 per Mt.
More so, there will be absolutely no upfront of any kind for we have already finalized financing of the cutting, loading and shipping with an investor but that should be when the buyers issues LC or any payment instrument to us so take note. That we should use collateral to the financier.
I think I have made myself clear to some point.
Like I said earlier, if you did not see my email reasonable to respond, then you might as well discard it.
I wish above all things that you will understand me
My regards,
Robert Sila (Engnr) (scrapmetal@consultant.com)
MD (Systemtechscrapmetals PTY Ltd)
South Africa
Tele  +27638217605
Skype: robertsilapro
Whatsapp:  +27638217605
 
 

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