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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: "R. Oswald" (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 13:20:14 -1200
Subject: Greetings, INVESTMENT FORMANT

Greetings, INVESTMENT FORMANT

Thanks for your Message.

The Investor is ready to Invest the funds (€300.000.000.00 Euro) Three hundred million Euro deposited at the Frankfurter Volks S.A Bank Luxembourg through your Company/Individual Projects in any country of your choice and you can invest in Real Estate, Construction, Trade, seafood, Eatery/Restaurant, Agriculture, Oil, Energy, Telecommunication, Health/Health Equipment, Power or any other business line of your choice that you are well experienced, but before the funds will be released and Disbursed from Luxembourg to your Bank account the following Terms and Condition MUST be agreed and accepted by the Trustee who will receive and Manage the funds:

1. Both Investor (Miss Andresen) and Trustee ( Receiver of the funds ) will sign and accept the Investment Agreement Contract in the meeting which will be organized by us ( Financial Adviser and Consultant)

2. The Trustee and The investor will fix a face to face meeting where all Issues concerning the funds will be discussed by both parties. In the case whereby Investor who is the Owner of the fund (Miss Andresen) is absent from the meeting, she has the right to appoint a representative who will stand on his behalf in this meeting to ensure all plans to move the funds to Trustee Bank account are under Perfect Control.

3. Both Trustee and Investor MUST agree on the meeting date and location before Investor will appoint a Representative if she is absent from the meeting, also in the care where the trustee can not make the trip to the meeting for the signing, we will start working on an arrangement to have the (INVESTMENT FINAL RELEASE ORDER) IFFRO and the MOU which are supposed to be signed during the meeting, we shall have them sent to you (Trustee) via email through the facilitator to sign and return to save you the time of travel.

4. My Client ( Investor) agreed and accepted to Invest the funds Overseas because in Norway the return on investment is low and if you have a good Project which can give us reasonable Profit within 10-15 Years my Investor will be willing and ready to finalize this transaction this week.

5. The Investor and Trustee will agree on how to move the funds directly to the Trustee Bank account directly from Investor Bank in Luxembourg or affiliated financial institution.

Please review and digest the above email so we can proceed accordingly. Upon your readiness, I will send you all documentation related to this transaction, including the Investment Agreement, etc. We shall proceed to facilitate on the release of the funds this week, only if you are ready and serious in this transaction. Please reply through this email at screendept@gmail.com.

R. Oswald

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