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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: Susan <chinvestment1942@gmail.com>
Reply-To: <drkhalilmiklad@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2020 21:30:59 +0200
Subject: DO YOU NEED SOFT LOAN TO FINANCE YOUR PROJECT WITH NO USE OF PHYSICAL COLLATERAL?

Hello Sir/Madam,
We are specialist Finance Company in arranging large loans Dubai, now we are looking out for a viable investment projects to finance through our Soft Loan corporate finance program at 2% per cent interest rate per annum without any physical Collateral.
 
Minimum Funding is USD1 Million. We don’t have any major area of funding but we give priority attention to Real Estate Development, other areas of interests include: Oil & Gas, Agriculture, Health, Aviation, Tourism, Retail, Construction, IT & Communications, Technology, Education, Energy, Engineering, Utilities, Telecom's, Mining, Maritime and most of other profitable ventures.
 
If you have any viable project that requires funding, kindly send the project plan/summary to me or to the Director via email at; drkhalilmiklad@hotmail.com, we will review it and get back to you with next procedure to funding the project.
 
Practice good hygiene, lets join hands to stop the spread, Stay safe!
Sincerely,
Susan Dogano,

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