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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: "Dr. Guy Anderson" <guyanderson025@gmail.com>
Reply-To: "Dr. Guy Anderson" <guyanderson653@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 09:45:17 -0700
Subject: COMPREHENSIVE NOTICE

Dear Future Partner

I am Mr.Guy Anderson i got your information during my commerce research on the internet, I am one of the funds Manager of The Mercantile Investment Trust Plc, a group of JP Morgan INVESTMENT INTERNATIONAL. I handle all Investors within my management portfolio Direct Capital Funds (their investment funds).


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As a routine every investor gets the percentage profit dividend from the total cash he or she invests into the company annually. Last year it was announced that the profit margin was 18.9% after calculating carefully I found out that the profit margin was 20.1% that was an excess of 1.2% on each investors so I clandestinely extracted 1.2% Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit (EMRCP) per annum on each of the Investor's Marginal Capital Fund and created a separate account where the total sum of the extracted fund is been kept as an expert, the account has a value of $35,800,000.00.Dollars (Thirty Five Million, Eight Hundred Thousand United States Dollars)

I am looking for someone who I can trust to stand as an Investor and receive the fund as Annual Investment Proceeds from The Mercantile Investment Trust Plc. All documents to back up will be made available to you .Meanwhile, I have worked out the modalities and technicalities whereby the funds can be claimed in any of our 6 Clearing Houses without any hitches. Our sharing ratio will be 50/50. If you are interested,Kindly forward me your full name, address, occupation, direct phone number and a copy of any means of identification for us to proceed asap.

Hope to read from you shortly.

Regards
Dr. Guy Anderson

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