419 scam: "Williams Dale"<clu@grandtai.com> WE BUY VENEZUELA BOLIVARS.

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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: "Williams Dale" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <williamsdalecj@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 01:54:00 -0700
Subject: WE BUY VENEZUELA BOLIVARS.

Good day I am Williams Dale

A private money changer and also into trading and also deal on bank instrument on bank to bank basis.

I buy Venezuela bolivars to pay USD/EURO and other bank instruments

We have 3 procedures for buying Venezuela bolivars at exchange rate of 100 for 1 usd/euros

1, After sign of contract we show our bank statement not later than 6months and once verified seller makes deposit to our local account in Venezuela and send us payment copies and once confirmed we wire usd and pay commission and first tranche is 5b to 10b

2, After sign of contract we give a verifiable bank draft on seller name and send soft copy for verification and once verified seller makes deposit to our local account in Venezuela and send us payment copies and once confirmed we wire usd and pay commission and first tranche is 5b to 10b

3, After sign of contract our bank send POF by MT199 to seller external bank and send copy to seller for verification and once verified seller makes deposit to our local account in Venezuela and send us payment copies and once confirmed we wire usd and pay commission and first tranche is 5b to 10b European bank, HK, Philippine, Swiss or send us your bank details first for approval from our bank before signing contract.

Regards,

Williams Dale

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