419 scam: "Adams"<adamsgeorge13@yahoo.com> INVESTMENT PROPOSAL

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Adams" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <george_adams196@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 01:25:43 +0100
Subject: INVESTMENT PROPOSAL

Dear Sir,

I wish to contact you as a foreign partner who will assist me and my client,

Actually I have been working with a UK consulting firm as an operation
and marketing representative for almost five years now and am on
commission agreement with this company which is not suitable for my
living as far as global recess is concern and I have given my company
many customers across the globe.

There's an opportunity that came to me because of my job. I have a
client who is a retired bank director from one the central banks and
he is an old man of about 90 years & his benefactor is ready to
release some fund for me with the condition that I can manage these
funds for an investment But I have decided to front you as my boss so,
that together we can manage these fund. He is willing to sign an
agreement with me that the funds will be in our custody for 21 years
minus 1 day, investing the fund in any viable sector of the economy we
find lucrative and we have our own percentage too in the whole set up.

I want to do this without the knowledge of my company, and I have also
submitted a letter of resignation to my company, Because if I bring
this opportunity to them again they will not compensate me adequately.

What I need from you is that I will use your name as my boss so that
they can release the funds to us, He only want to see your name as a
foreigner. This does not require any Experience from you as I will do
everything within my power for the transfer of the fund and all
documentation with the assistance of a notable lawyer so that
everything will be legal.

PLEASE YOU SHOULD TAKE NOTE OF THIS MESSAGE.I DON’T ASK YOU FOR MONEY
OR SEND MONEY TO ME. I am only to clarify this for you to understand
the genuity of this partnership, and Once I receive reply from you I
will fly from united kingdom to formalize the transaction from where I
shall call you so that we can talk on phone so, please send your phone
numbers to me for expedient contact/communication.

Thanks.

Mr. George Adam
United Kingdom
Tel No:+44-759-948-2438

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