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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: "RUSSEL LEAN DAVID" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <russel.d@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 21:10:24 -0700
Subject: Re: INVESTMENT FUND....

Greetings



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 large scale business establishments and projects around the world. We intermediate for some high net worth private investors/Politicians from the Middle East, European, African, and Asian business tycoons with liquid and block funds ready for placement from 0% to 100% funding of a viable genuine project on the below sectors



Energy and Power Sectors, Oil & Gas, Agriculture, Acquisition, Health, Real Estate, IT, Technology, Transportation, Mining, Maritime and Manufacturing. etc If you are seriously pursuing Foreign Direct Investment or Joint Venture for your projects and clients in any of these sectors stated above, kindly notify us so as to provide you with the basic financing terms of this offer and get you started with the process.

Sincerely,
David Lean Russel
Investments Finance Adviser

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