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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: Commercial Loans & Services <unorga09@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 20:26:07 +0200
Subject: Attention Sir/Madam,

Attention Sir/Madam,

We are writing you today to introduce our business loan services to you.

Commercial Holdings Inc. has developed relationships with several lenders who offer funding for businesses in need. We have direct access with capital funding sources and have well developed and proven methods for organizing and structuring capital financing, with the ability to procure full capital funds with favorable rates and terms.

Funds are available for land development, expansion capital, working capital, real property, construction projects, factoring, energy, manufacturing, telecommunications and real estate acquisitions such as hotel and commercial properties. We also take a look at the need for financing in a wide variety of other industries as well, such as oil and gas, new technologies, and forestry and mining to name a few.

Our pool of funds is provided by high net worth individuals, trust funds, family office funds as well as corporate and institutional funds. We act as the direct custodian of these funds provided by our clients who request that we operate with the utmost of privacy and discretion. As a result we normally fund individual projects starting from 3 million well into the 100 to 200 million dollar range.

The focus is towards those who are in need of additional capital to maintain financial stability in order to help strengthen, revitalize and stimulate their business. The chief aim of these loans is to promote economic growth of sustainable businesses through job creation, resulting in economic empowerment.

For any project we will require an Executive Summary or Business Plan to proceed. Please contact us if you are interested so that we can send you a loan application. If you have any question please free to contact the undersigned.

Looking forward to working with you in the future.

Yours truly,
Smith Williams,
COMMERCIAL HOLDINGS INC.
www.commercialholdingsinc.com
Email: unorga09@gmail.com
Phone: 917-231-9305 (New York).

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