419 scam: "Austin Edomwonyi"<sale@budcentre.com.ua> Water, Sanitation and Hygeine Proposal

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Austin Edomwonyi" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <austinedomwonyi@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 09:31:56 -0700
Subject: Water, Sanitation and Hygeine Proposal

Dear Sir/Ma,

Do not let this come as a surprise to you as my organization and I do a lot of philanthropic work and support a lot of good will project in Africa, Asia and South America.

I have one of such project that I am currently involved in, it has to do with providing solar powered borehole water, modern toilets and wash hand basins in schools in a local government area in Edo State, Nigeria. The details of the project is in the attached documents.

It will cost seventy two thousand five hundred dollars (72,500USD) to carry out the project in one school while it will cost Ten million Seventy seven thousand five hundred dollars in the entire 139 schools in the local government area.

I will appreciate it if you can support this worthy cause and let me know how many schools that you can adopt and sponsor the project in.

Video evidence and photographs (pre, intra and post) of the project will be sent to you and you and your organization will be acknowledged as the proud sponsor of the project.

Thanks

Austin Edomwonyi

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