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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: "August Davi" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <info@davidconsultsplc.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 06:07:30 -0700
Subject: Dear Sir,

My Name is Augusto David,an investment consultant, I am making  this  contact to  you on behalf  of  my  client a politician who served in Angolan government has mandated me to seek out an astute investment fund  manager  from, Europe and the United  States respectively, with vast knowledge in the  management of investible funds totaling  US$550M USD which he siphoned overseas and  currently lodged in escrow  account  with  a prime  bank overseas.
I have been assigned to keep this transaction  secret and  as  well ensure  that the would be investment manager  would  as well be brought into  the full picture of observing  absolute  secrecy and utmost  confidentiality in the protection of the politician who would not want his name mention for now.
 
In addition, the investment  manager  would be  given  full authorization  to invest the  funds on behalf  of  the  investor without any form of involvement  from the investor until he ends  his tenure,  but to function strictly with the investor's financial manager directly.
 
The Investor who has just left the executive cabinet of the Angola Government, is willing after being convinced  of the investment manager capability and  ability to manage  the investment funds  would legally  transfer the  full ownership of  the investment funds into the custody of the investment  manager after the investment manager and his financial manager  must have sited  the  funds  with  the holding prime bank overseas.
I await  your favorable reply     
 
Kind regards,
Mr. Augusto David

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