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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: "Mrs Lisa Melton"<noreply@021021.ir>
Date:
Subject:

Hello,

My name is Luis Mputo, from Solutions Finance (Life Cover) Inc., SouthAfrica.
I am writing this note to you as a matter of urgency, hoping that you
and I can work something out in the near future.
I need to know if you will be able to manage private investments by a
high-net-worth quiet investor, who is an immigrant from a Russian
family. He wants to discreetly extend his investment footprint in your
region with access to an insured capital of over $65M in its current
US Dollars fiat currency value.
We require your expertise to invest the funds there in your region, on
profit sharing partnership agreement for 5 -10 years with roll-over
options.

However, his keen area of interest is hybrid real estate, largescale
Industrial agriculture / Pastoral farming or other investments with
good ROI.
If you are ready to advance this bid, kindly let me know so that I can
explain further, and then we can start working on the MoU Agreement. I
understand that this mail may seem somehow weird to you considering
the fact that we have never met each other before. But the truth is
that this is where we find ourselves right now. You will not be
required to pay any money in advance during the course of the process.
I just need you to treat this with utmost confidentiality considering
the Nationality of the source of funds.A

Email me if you are capable of handling such high level investments,

Luis Mputo, FCA

Director

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