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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: "MORRIS MORGAN" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dr.morris00morgan@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 13:36:59 -0700
Subject: Greetings,

Greetings,
 
We specialize in providing equity funding for projects and corporate and Personal loan funding at 3% Interest Rate for a duration of 10Years. We also have financial capability to provide early stage funding including fresh cut BG's, MTN and MT760.
Kindly contact us as we will be looking forward to providing the needed services to you as well as discussing further business with you. We also pay 1% commission to brokers, who introduce project owners for finance or other opportunities.
Please get back to me if you are interested for more details through my email: dr.morris00morgan@gmail.com  for a private conversation.
Yours faithfully,
Dr.Morris Morgan

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