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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: "samir@emirates.com" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mdc0001112@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 20:57:44 +0400
Subject: DO YOU NEED LOAN TO FINANCE PROJECT?

Assalamu Alaikum!
Are you in need of investment loan on 3% percent interest per annum, we can give you 1,000,000 USD first tranche to be used as proof and for good relationship to start between us for you to show the loan as evidence to your contacts and introduce people/companies
to get funding through our company to finance their projects instead of getting funding from other companies and banks you will introduce them to get funding from our company for their projects, but please take note we are only giving you this first tranche of 1,000,000 USD
as a test for showing it as evidence to your contacts but under our company's investment loan policy we are willing to fund projects requiring a minimum loan of 5,000,000.00 USD and a maximum of 10,000,000,000.00 USD and we would also consider funding mega projects higher
than 100,000,000,000.00 USD investment loan through collaborating with a UAE owned giant oil exploration company where our company retains 14.3% percent of its shareholding if we are contacted.
 
Please if you are interested to work with us as stated above kindly fill the below informations for our lawyer to draft an MOU contract for this first 1,000,000 USD tranche you are to receive within few days as a test to show your contacts as evidence.
 
1) Full Name:
2) Company Name:
3) Company Address:
4) Company's Position:
5) Mobile No:
6) Telephone No:
7) Fax No:
8) Purpose of Loan:
9) Passport/SSN/ID No:
 
You can give us your Skype lets add you and talk on video call from here in Dubai if you have anything you want to ask before proceeding forward.
Insha Allah.
Samir
Dubai, UAE.

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