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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: Ramesh Vijay <busted@iobox.fi>
Reply-To: ramesh-vijay@financier.com
Date: 18 Mar 2022 01:51:00 +0100
Subject: Investment Opportunity

Hello

How are you? I hope you are fine and doing great. I'm Mr Ramesh
Vijay
 from Massachusetts  USA, Well we reaching out to more
individuals 
and expanding the trading market so I decided to contact you if 
you would find it interesting I'm in the Financial growth 
institute and I am advertising my company's business, we could  
have 5 mins conversation if you don't mind?


I'm a professional stock broker and binary trader/account
manager 
with years of experience. I have set up with a brokerage firm
and 
I help manage and handle accounts for them. I've an autotrader 
software which enables me make profits with my accounts at most 
of my trading time.

I would love to introduce you to trading and earning using 
bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Learn how to earn over $4,300
weekly from the comfort of your home just trading your 
bitcoin against other currencies, commodities, indices, binary, 
forex, stocks, and coins.

Lastly, this is not scam as nobody is asking you for your money 
for anything, this is you investing your money according to your 
capacity, this is an investment for a life time, you can also 
contact me via WhatsApp(+1-585-666-0770)

Kind Regards

Ramesh Vijay.



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