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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: Emirates Investment Fund Development <emiratesinvestmentfunddevelop@gmail.com>
Reply-To: emiratesinvestmentfunddevelopm@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 10:54:21 +0000
Subject: Loan investment funding..Do you have any lucrative projects that
require funding?



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Attention Sir/Madam,

I'm Mr.Zorlu Kemal Azziz, board Member to Emirates Investment Fund
Development,we wish to invite you to our Loan programme,Do you have
any lucrative projects that require funding? What’s the sector of the
project? Do you think the project can generate a good ROI?

Emirates Investment Fund Development will be interested to consider a
possible collaboration with your firm through project development
within your area if it proves viable after our review and
consideration. EIFD is currently financing project developments
through conventional loans of 2.5% interest rate annually and our
possible collaboration with your firm will be based on this form of
funding.

We are open and ready to discuss possible collaboration with project
owners, investors, investment brokers and general business
facilitators if our offer for funding and cooperation as highlighted
above is within the acceptable funding needs for your projects or
investment initiative. We also give reasonable commission to brokers,
who brings projects from project owners for finance or other
opportunities.kindly indicate your interest for more details.

Regards

Mr.Zorlu Kemal Azziz
United Arab Emirates

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