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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: claude james <claude01james@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 17:33:25 +0100
Subject: investment partnership request and loan offer

Hello sir madam,

It is my pleasure to contact you in a win-win partnership. Indeed I am an
investment advisory consultant and subsequently I represent groups of
private investors of political personality who have worked in Africa with
former heads of state. I am looking for honest, discreet people, and
project directors who do not have the support of banks for the realization
of their projects. Here is the opportunity to benefit from a helping hand
to make your dreams a reality. We finance projects whose profitability is
certain in the short and long term in several areas such as:
agro-industries, agriculture, aquaculture, tourism, hotels, road transport,
fisheries, agronomy, livestock, real estate, mining and oil exploitation,
agro - pastoral, import and export, renewable energies, solar energy,
constructions, new technologies, and the creation of profitable companies.
The capital of the investor groups amounts to 950 million US dollars). We
are able to work with you in other areas of which we leave you free rein to
orient us towards projects which you deem fit to be able to invest and
profitable, all serious people or companies wanting this loan or
partnership of investment in common, 3% interest per year depending on the
sum lent or investment, because being a consultant of the group of
investors I cannot violate the law on usury. You can repay over a maximum
of 10 years, it's up to you for the monthly payments. We give a commission
to our partner who will help us with the utmost discretion to be able to
lead us to the happy outcome of this partnership. As soon as our partner
responds to our partnership request, we will send him more details of our
partnership agreement. partnership and contract terms.

If our proposal interests you, do not hesitate to contact me and present
me your business plan on your projects and the cost of investment so that I
can put you in contact with the groups of investors of collaboration and
financing of your projects because first of all a face-to-face meeting is
mandatory in order to better elucidate the ins and outs of our partnership
agreement.

Pending a favorable response, please accept the expression of my deepest
feelings

Warmest regards

Claude James

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