419 scam: "Dr. William Martins"<drwilliamtms00@gmail.com> INVESTMENT/BUSINESS REQUEST REPLY AWAIT

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "huge amount of money" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr. William Martins" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <drwilliamtms0@rediffmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 19:45:53 +0100
Subject: INVESTMENT/BUSINESS REQUEST REPLY AWAIT

DR.WILLIAM T.MARTIN.
WHY-MARTIN HOLDINGS LTD.
ACCRA GHANA, WEST AFRICA.

My Dear ,

I am Mr. William Martins from Accra in Ghana; I am by the special grace of God a wealthy and a high ambitious man who has been blessed tremendously by God. I am a very rich, wealthy and big business man in my country and also all over the world, and I deal on every thing needed for the growth of man which is not possible to call names as the pages of this little write up will not contain it.

My main business deal that lifted me up to this height is the so called importation and exportation of family treasures of gold and diamonds from my country outside the world a raw gold and importation of jewels in my country. I have business branches and empires all over the world and I wish to have more business investments in the countries that I have never touched business wise.

I am planning to invest my great wealth in the countries like U.A.E, and my aim is to invest in the city of Dubai the sum of $13.5 Million United States Dollars in any business that will help promote the Dubai market, but I need someone who is nice, kind, trust worthy and also who has business IQ and investment knowledge in Dubai or countries around Dubai that can help invest this huge amount as soon as my investment manager arrive Dubai with the huge amount of money.

I still have interest to invest in some areas around Dubai, Asian countries and India that also have good business environment and nice trading market arena which I need some one who is also trust worthy, and nice that will help me regarding the investments plans.

As soon as I receive your response regarding your interest in helping me invest this huge amount in Dubai, I will get you connected with my investment manager, so that you commence on the investment plans with him immediately without further delay, My promise to you is that you will be entitled to 20% of every income that will come from the investment if you kindly help.

Get back to me if you are interested with your name, contact address, telephone number and Nationality so that we can be able to move ahead with the details of the investment.

Sincerely,

Dr. William Martins
CEO, WHY-MARTINS HOLDINGS LTD.

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