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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: "samir@emirates.com" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mdc0001112@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2017 01:37:12 +0400
Subject: ARE YOU LOOKING FOR INVESTMENT FUNDS FOR YOUR PROJECT?

Assalamu Alaikum!
Are you in need of investment loan on 3% percent interest per annum, we can help you secure investment funds from our company here in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
 
Please we want to know if you can start with a facility fee of 5,000 USD for doing a Financial Errors and Omissions Insurance Bond in an insurance company for the security of the facility so that you will receive loan in the amount of 1,000,000 USD as first tranche.
 
Therefore we want you to just give us a test with this first so that we will transfer you the first tranche immediately as a sign of good relationship to start between us because we understand that when we keep our agreement with you then you will introduce more people to us to get funding through us instead of getting funding from other companies and banks you will introduce
them to get loan funding from our company.
 
This is why we must proof to you if you allow us for just paying this first part payment for the security of the first tranche to be made and in the next 2 or 3 days you will receive the first tranche in your account as a sign of proof from our company, please let us know if this is accepted and give us the below informations for our lawyer to draft the MOU contract for this 1,000,000 USD first tranche.
 
1) Full Name:
2) Company Name:
3) Company Address:
4) Company's Position:
5) Mobile No:
6) Telephone No:
7) Fax No:
8) Purpose of Loan:
9) Passport/SSN/ID No:
Meanwhile if you want to talk to other companies and private individuals around the world we have funded loan recently kindly tell us and we will send you their companies contacts for you to confirm from them to see we funded their loan after paying the facility fee for doing the Financial Errors and Omissions Insurance Bond for the security of the loan, I hope you understand me?
 
You can give us your Skype lets add you and talk on video call if you have anything you want to ask before proceeding forward.
Insha Allah.
Samir
Dubai, UAE.

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