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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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Fraud email example:

From: Maurine Daye <info@atp.com.mt>
Reply-To: maurine.daye@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 04:43:20 +0000
Subject: ATP "Sweaty Quid - UK Freelance Marketplace"

From: Maurine Daye <maurine.daye@yahoo.com>
Subject: Sweaty Quid - UK Freelance Marketplace

Message Body:
Hello there

My name is Sergey and I am a co-founder of Sweaty Quid Freelancer Marketplace just where you are able to purchase and offer all types of on-line services varying from backlinks and guest post to explainer videos, infographics and blog posts for your business website.

I strongly believe that you and atp.com.mt could really benefit from Sweaty Quid, no matter if you wish to supply your services or hire freelancers to assist you to grow your company.

I have been a freelancer on a number of marketplaces for in excess of 5 years and have had my accounts arbitrarily closed down, my incomes misappropriated and I simply had a difficult time with lots of poor quality freelancers. After much disappointment, I decided to start my very own freelance market place that would do things differently and better.

After almost one year of caffeinne powered evenings, myself and my team at Creative Bear Tech have developed Sweaty Quid from ground up. One month into our launch we have managed to bring in a fantastic variety of professional freelancers and a remarkably high number of repeat customers. I strongly believe this functions as a testament to our excellence.

Sweaty Quid is a spam-free and transparent marketplace for high quality freelancers and buyers. We are rigorously banning all spammy sellers who do not pass our quality threshold and leave only the very best ones. Keeping up with the current technologcal changes, we also take cryptocurrency as one of our payment methods. Our ethos that defines us is that sometimes less is more, primarily when it comes to high quality freelancers.

We are still very new in contrast to other freelance market places, but we are already punching above our weight.

I would like to welcome you personally to join Sweaty Quid Freelancer Market Place!


Kind regards

Sergey Greenfields
Co-Founder of Sweaty Quid Freelancer Marketplace
Flat 9, 1 Jardine Rd, St Katharine's & Wapping,
London E1W 3WD, UK
https://www.sweatyquid.com

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