419 scam: "David Russel Lean"<businessinvestment@ideafirm.com> RE; INVESTMENT PROPOSAL

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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!

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "% commission" (Beware of any scheme that involves depositing checks or money orders or receiving wire transfers in your bank account and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere, for a percentage of 5-15% of the total. Such offers are *always* fraudulent and you will be liable for the entire amount when the checks, money orders or wire transfers turn out to be fraudulent. Any money already forwarded comes out of *your* pocket then. )
- "receive a commission" (Beware of any scheme that involves depositing checks or money orders or receiving wire transfers in your bank account and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere, for a percentage of 5-15% of the total. Such offers are *always* fraudulent and you will be liable for the entire amount when the checks, money orders or wire transfers turn out to be fraudulent. Any money already forwarded comes out of *your* pocket then. )
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "David Russel Lean" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <russel.d@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 17:50:16 -0700
Subject: RE; INVESTMENT PROPOSAL

Good Day

Greetings to you,
Thank you for the opportunity to put forward our business proposal to you and your time of evaluation. It is our pleasure to contact you as we are starting to make more funding to invest into a large scale business establishments and projects, around the world.

We meditate for some high net worth private investors/Politicians from middle East, European, African and Asian business tycoons with liquid and block funds ready for placement from 0% to 100% funding of a viable
a genuine project of high magnitude as long you fit their criteria and we will set up an agreement/MOU between you and our private investors after all due diligence. They are looking for a 5 to 10 years investment period
for negotiable 3% to 5% of the investment returns annually as the interest of the Fund and can roll over after the expiration if all things being equal. Please if you are interested and have a project that needs funding, we will like to have your company profile and project summary with it geographical area to broker the investment funding to your favor according
to our investor's term, You have to also officially engage us by sending to us a letter of interest (LOI) to enable us to facilitate your needed loan facility request in less than 15 working days if registered with us.

Please note that no upfront 1% commission to the facilitators, our conditions will be placed on our MOU /contract including the interest rate between 3% to 5% negotiable yearly reimbursement with 1 or 2 years moratorium period based on the nature of your project/business proposal. Finally, if you don’t have any viable project, then we implore you to source from your colleagues and clients that have a genuine project yet to be financed due to inadequate funding. Also bear in mind that any referral
you bring to our notice, you will receive a commission on our payroll schedule for your services rendered.

Do get back to us through above our contact at your earliest convenience,
with your project scope or referral proposition, to proceed and secure
your desired funding needs.

Sincerely,
David Lean Russel
Investments Finance Adviser

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