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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Markus Ronald" <info@apptimaker.com>
Reply-To: <ronald.marcussa@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2021 02:40:43 +0800
Subject: YOUR URGENT REPLY NEEDED!!!!

Dear


I work as Attorney in an Investment and Asset Management firm. We are seeking for good projects to invest funds for one of our Clients, who incidentally is a politically exposed person, and have funds, which he want to evacuate from this shore through a Blind Trust Investment, because of the status which he holds in the government of his country.He has mandated us to represent his interest and seek for a viable new investment and an Investment Manager that could manage the funds for a minimum of Five years. We are only interested in turn key projects in Real Estate, Hospitality industries, Energy, Construction and transportation industries.

If you have a good turnkey project or other Investments objectives that our Principal investor will consent to, we may seize the opportunity to discuss that together with you. If you have any specific project in mind? and if yes, you avail us with the Blue print, so that we can discuss and evaluate it with you and if found to be a worthwhile venture, we will arrange for a meeting with you to discuss on the modalities, review the Memorandum of Understanding prior to signing a Investment Management Agreement with you and the release of the required Investment funds to your designated Bank for these projects.

We have up to 300 Million United States Dollars of our Principal Investor's funds that he want to evacuate from this shores through a Blind Trust Investment arrangement. Like I said earlier he has mandated us to represent his interest in this transaction because of the political position that he holds in the government of his country, and would not want to raise any public outcry or scrutiny over the said funds that he want us to evacuate on his behalf through a Blind Trust Investment.

If you have a genuine verifiable projects and the ability to manage these funds, please feel free to indicate your interest to me, so that we can discuss it with you and if found to be a viable one, that will meet up with our criteria and give our Investor the required investment returns he had requested, we will explore it together with you.

I look forward to hearing from you, Send your responds to via email.
Regards,

Markus Ronald

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