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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. Vincent Pierre" <conference@silora.co.il>
Reply-To: vincepierre@protonmail.com
Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 19:30:18 -0700
Subject: Hello

Good day,

My name is Mr Vincent Pierre, I am the Investment and Administrative Manager at Vision Finance Limited Norwich Branch, United Kingdom.

I have a profound and immense business I will love to discuss with you that will be of good benefit to both of us if carefully and intelligently handled.

I am contacting you to seek your consent to partner with me to put a claim of an Excess Investment Profit Returns (EIPR) which my department recorded. I would have handled this operation all alone, but it requires the participation of a foreign citizen, thus I am contacting you to work with me to actualize it.

Due to top confidentiality of this operation, I won’t be able to stress out the full details of this business on this first letter, therefore I will appreciate if you find time to respond to this message today so as to give you the full details of this operation and procedures by which we will follow.

Looking forward to reading your email today.

Thanks in advance

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