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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: tatweer petroleum group <chanutung@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mansour.group@groupmail.com
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 21:26:51 +0100
Subject: My warmest regards to you,

Hello,


It is indeed my pleasure to write you this letter, which I believe
will be a surprise to you as we have never met before, and I am deeply
sorry if I have in any manner disturbed your privacy. Please forgive
this unusual manner of contacting you,.

My Name is Mohamed Mansour from Egypt i m an investor, I contacted you
from Saudi Arabia where I am now residing as refugee due to political
crisis in my country.

i got your contact from the internet and LinkedIn on my search for
investment opportunities in your country.

I was an Egyptian politician, a business man and also i handle a lot
of government offices in Egypt too. pls Click on this link below and
read more about my profile:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Mansour_(businessman)

I wish to inform you that I contacted you because I have interest in
having outside investment plans. Of which I will like to discuss
business with you that will yield high profit to us. But I also have
interest on Real estate sector.

my investment interest is: oil/Gas, banking,real estate, stock
speculation and mining, transportation, health sector and tobacco,
Communication Services, Agriculture Forestry & Fishing, thus any
sector.

I,have $18.5million usd which i have successfully moved out from Egypt
to abroad for safe keeping, If your business are OK, then we will
discuss further while I make my decision on how we can make the
investment, The whole documents that patterning the transaction is
with the bank and it will be handed over to you during a meeting .

Let me know so that I can be able to Instruct my Lawyer to contact
with you and discuss further details and planning also to sending you
my proposed draft Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for you to study
and understand more about my proposal before we can schedule a meeting
date for us to meet face to face and discuss more better.

pls kindly contact me through my private mailbox for more discussion.
{mansour.group@groupmail.com}

Thanks and Regards,
Mohamed Mansour
Title: INVESTOR

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