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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: joe robbinson <joer33419@gmail.com>
Reply-To: s.jamesl@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2021 16:06:15 +0200
Subject: Projects Funding

Attention:

My greetings to you, regarding the project funding. I am an accredited
broker to Cin Belgium Limited on loan project funding facilitation to
individuals and firms in search of investment funding. The
Investor/Allied investors we represent have the facility and expertise
to approve loans to borrowers with legitimate projects, any systematic
funding ranging from 5 Million Dollars/Euro up to a Billion Dollars/
Euro will be approved. I am not the investor, I am a broker to the
Investor and would provide you Investor details once you confirmed
your interest, please understand this.

Consider this as a proposal of Investment/loan to be funding to anyone
interested within an effective time frame and without encumbrance
depending on the credit rating/score of the applying borrower.

If you have a project that requires funding, I am here to provide you
an investor and the applied amount will be approved and transferred to
the borrower's bank account; we operate a systematic Loan funding that
meets borrower’s satisfaction and uphold cordial relationships with
our clients all over the world.

I will appreciate it if you can partner with us on your project
financing needs etc, it will be nice doing business with you.

Yours sincerely,
Mr.Joe Robinson.
Accredited Broker

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