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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: "James Eric" <jai@youth4work.com>
Reply-To: james.eric16@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2020 22:01:28 +0200
Subject: =?utf-8?q?Project=C2=A0Funding=C2=A0and=C2=A0Investment_?=

For Your Kind Attention:

Our Client is currently seeking means of expanding and relocating our business interest in the following sectors; Manufacturing, Construction, Oil and Gas, Banking, Real Estate, Stock Speculation, Mining, Transportation and Tobacco or any other businesses.If you have a solid background and idea of making good profit in any of the above mentioned business sectors or any other business in your country, please write me for possible business co-operation.

More so, our client are ready to facilitate and fund any business that is capable of generating 3% annual return on investment (AROI) but will be Purely on Loan Financing. I think I will be delighted to discuss in details with you about your project (s). Our client have the enough needed capital in excess of ($5Billion US Dollars) to take your project to completion and so kindly get back to me for more discussions.

Our company would be happy to receive your Executive Summary/Project Plan as well as accepting an NDA and our client is ready to provide you with loan.

E-mail your projects summary discussions.


Waiting for your urgent reply

My Regards
James Eric

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