419 scam: "Lewis David"<info@investment.com> Re : Investment and Partnership

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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: "Lewis David" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <lewdavid@yandex.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 13:11:35 -0400
Subject: Re : Investment and Partnership

Goodday,

An investor whose funds is at risk due to the power play, politics and economic control over Ukraine between the WEST and RUSSIA seeks reputable and trustworthy individuals, companies, professional with sound business proposal, strategy and experience to entrust huge funds in millions (USD $ XXX XXX XXX,XX) and assets for possible investment/safe keeping over a period of time.

The decision is borne out the recent stand and move by the USA, EUROPEAN governments and their banks to frozen known accounts and assets of some wealthy Russians suspected to be cronies of the government of the Russian Federation/Putin, hence the reason behind the huge transfers of funds and assets out of Europe, especially London-United Kingdom In recent times for fear of being caught in the web.

I am a banker with prime bank in MOSCOW,RUSSIA, opportune to be exposed to this information as the investor informed me of this in confidence directly and discreetly by himself due to my closeness to him, having being overseeing his investments in UK overtime.

Should you have the capacity and ability to handle investments of such magnitude, feel free to contact me via my private mail (lewdavid@yandex.com) with your details or call me on + 7 4954631712 for a constructive and more elaborate discussion ,and probably connect you directly to the investor if need be.

Yours Faithfully
Lewis Alan D.

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