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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: Reedwallace@cs.com
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:51:53 EST
Subject: Reed-Fedor & issues



Apy, Here are the issues.
1. We offered $3 Million USD for the first fight and $2 Million USD for 2nd &
3rd a few weeks ago. This is after you offered Fedor at $2 Million for the
first fight and I lost face with my partners when you told me that the price was
$3 Million.
2. More than a month has passed and I have again lost face because after I
got my partners to agree to the $3 Million USD ( with a bank guarantee ) we
still could not deliver a contract.
3. Fedor's image is not known to the USA public marketplace and he will not
sell enough tickets to pay for his fight on a 1-fight deal and there is not
enough time now for us to advertise and market Fedor for a May 25th event.
4. 3 Fight contract in minimum ( non-exclusive ) for us to take the time,
risk and money for Fedor. We must develop a huge marketing and exposure campaign
for him and in this case, I need to know that my image contract with Apy is
valid and would ask Vadim to sign the contract as well.
5. Stas wrote that I would receive 10% for any fights I was able to get for
Fedor in the USA, then later he wrote that he will not pay this. How can I
trust I will get paid and that fedor will even show up to fight ?
Reed

p.s. we have lost a lot of time and money because we relied on your fight
card proposal of two months ago. I do not even want to get into that. The Fedor
negotiations have been nothing but a waste of time, our offer has been used by
Vadim to shop Fedor with other promoters and only we offer a bank guarantee.
Pride will not be able to pay Fedor the $2 million they agreed and UFC will not
deal with you and Vadim and if they do, they will own Fedor exclusively and
wil not allow any of the bullshit you have put us through. So you have Bodog
and you lose millions of dollars and much time wasted on building Fedor's image.
Complete mismanagement in my opinion. Perhaps Vlad should be doing something
for Fedor's image, he lives in New York ???
If you want to sell tickets in the USA, you better get Diego Sanchez or Chuck
Liddell

Reed Wallace
www.whitecm.com
White Chocolate Management, Inc.
1901 Harrison Street suite # 208
Hollywood, Florida 33020
tel-1-954-921-1311
fax-1-954-921-1351
cell-1-310-980-1765
email-reed@whitecm.com

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