419 scam: "Mr. Elvis Johnson"<admin@afei.org.au> INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY

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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: "Mr. Elvis Johnson" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <elvis.johnson017@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 08:30:33 +0430
Subject: INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY

My name Elvis Johnson, from England, looking for investment opportunity in the USA market, I represent a client (company) in United Kingdom and my client has interest to do business relative to investments in USA, not directly having a particular sector in mind precisely, but to get into a good mutual business relationship, with good business plan or vision to invest investment capital and recoup good ROI (Return On Investment) from the investment in your project/Idea. Please let me know what your response will be to an offer to receive investment funds in cash if:

1. The said fund amounts to Fifty Million (US) Dollars.

2. The said fund is in Bond deposit and will be liquidate then transfer to your company account.

3. The fund is intended to be invested through your agency in the purchase of facilities and assets, for the said purposes within your country.

4. This Investment project is open for a registered company in US only.

If you have great investment opportunity/Idea, kindly get back to me for detailed discussion between us to understand way forward on how to invest in your Project/Idea.

My Client will fund all expenses that will be incurred until the capital sum of investment is transferred into your account. We hope to close this Investment program as soon as we can.

Let me hear from you soon.

Elvis Johnson

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