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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: "Project Financiers" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <gpfinacier@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 08:01:19 +0400
Subject: PROJECT FUNDING SOLUTION.

Dear Sir/Madam,

Greetings to you,

Thank you for the opportunity to put forward our business proposal to you and your time of evaluation. It is our pleasure to contact you as we are starting to make more investment deal into small scale and large scale establishments, and project financing all around the world, specifically in Euro Zone, Middle East and America e.t.c.

We mediate for some high net worth private investors who are Arabian, European and Asian business tycoons with liquid cash and have the capability to release funds to your viable genuine business of any magnitude even in Billions of Dollars, as long as an agreement and MoU has been made between you and our private investors.

First, I want you to bear in mind that as we are the mediator to close the investment deal to your favor we are not asking you for an upfront 1% commission, as it’s the private investor’s agreement to pay us separately from his own funds for our services rendered.

Secondly, in most cases the interest rate is normally 3%, and we are not talking about a 3% yearly reimbursement, but rather after a total period of 10 years it’s when you are deemed to commence full payback of the investment funds. If for example it's $250,000 you loan, you will then payback $250,000 with an additional 3% interest rate. So that is how the scope of this investment program works.

Lastly, if you don’t have any viable project, then we implore you to source from your colleagues and friends that have genuine project yet to be financed due to inadequate funding. You should also bear in mind that any referral you bring to our notice, you will receive a commission on our payroll schedule for your services rendered.

Do get back to me on our private email {gpfinacier@gmail.com} at your earliest convenience, with your project scope or referral proposition, so we can move forward to see how things will work out for all parties involved.

Sincerely,

JAMES HOWARD
For: Global Project Financiers
Senior Financial Adviser
Senior Vice President - Investments
Wealth Brokerage Services

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