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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: "Haile Alemayehul" <info@projectinvestmentfund.com>
Reply-To: bgsblcltv@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 02:34:59 -0700
Subject: We are collateral provider

Hello,
We are collateral provider as well as a private lender. This collateral provision has seen enormous growth in the financial industry. It is pertinent to know that genuine collateral provider still exists despite the circulation of nonverifiable financial papers which have dominated the market recently. Our collateral could be reassigned or temporarily transfer of an existing ownership title to another entity regardless of location.

We work with a number of world top ranking banks. When it comes to Letters of Credit (DLC’s LC’s BG's and SBLC’s, we have more than 200 banks on our list.

We offer the following types of instruments;
Bank Guarantees – Stand By Letter of Credits
BG’s/SBLC’s owned
BG’s /SBLC’s leased

Letter of Credit
DLC’s
LC’s
SBLC’s for Goods

Term Notes
MTN’s
LTN’s
Sale of LTN’s

We can reissue or transfer an existing financial instrument to you to meet your financial demand uses. Most of these instruments can be provided as owned or leased, recourse or non-recourse, depending on the purpose they are going to serve. We will follow up by sending you transaction procedure for any of these instruments. We will provide you NCND and our Deed of Agreement for Bank Instruments. These instruments can be used to fund business loan or as a collateral to execute project, if a borrower (client) defaults loan agreement or repayment schedule, financing bank can liquidate the collateral (Bank Guarantee / Standby Letter of Credit) but cannot seek loan beneficiary for any further compensation, even if the collateral does not cover the full value of the defaulted amount.

The whole process should take between 15 to 25 days after the first initial stage and resolve on transaction procedure.


Best Regards,

Thank you.
Haile Alemayehu
Financial Management Ltd
42 Lytton Road, Barnet,
EN5 5BY, United Kingdom.

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