Mr. FREDERIK DUVENHAGEN

The e-mail here is just one type of the thousands of scam e-mail variants sent out each day by 419 scammers. If you've received an e-mail even remotely similar to the one on this page or if you have arrived at this page via an internet search resulting from an e-mail that you received, I can 100% guarantee that YOU HAVE RECEIVED A SCAM E-MAIL!

This is an internet scam! Do NOT send these scammers money for any reason.

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From:     Frederik Duvenhagen <duvenhagen@hotmail.com>
Reply-To:     duvenhagen@hotmail.com
Subject:     ATTENTION PLEASE
Date:     Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:45:14 -0700 (11:45 EDT)

Attention:

My name is Mr.FREDERIK DUVENHAGEN I am South African man by birth an resident in Spain. I am a sale and account manager in a financial consultancy firm here Madrid. My Company is mandated to source for reliable investors in the World over to invest available funds in profitable business ventures.

This is why I am making this urgent contact with you and your associates, some prominent individuals in Marbella the Andalusia region of Spain made these funds available to my firm and the available fund is in US dollars amounting to millions, because of the heat they are now facing from the law for the unauthorized sales of states properties, the city mayor and deputy mayor amid allegations of money laundering is now under house arrest, for property development offences, including building on land protected from development, manipulation of public tenders, and the acceptance of bribes as well as schemes to alter the price of municipal services.

In this sleaze scandal, which hit the southern Spanish resort city Marbella in spring 2006,and they know their chances of not going to jail is slim they have asked my firm to act swiftly on their behalf in other for them not to lose out completely and save something for their family members. Depending on your experience and proposal you will forward to us, we will determine a suitable amount to remit to you to kick off the business you intend to invest in.

Please, reply to this mail and I will forward more information to you.

Regards,
Mr. FREDERIK DUVENHAGEN
Kindly reply to:duvenhagen@hotmail.com

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It's important to note that any real people or legitimate organizations mentioned in these scam e-mails have absolutely no connection with this scam!

The scammers never use their real names.
They frequently take on the identity of real people to help them convince you that they are genuine.
Whatever these scammers tell you, DON'T believe a word of it!!!

This is just a small sampling of the many hundreds of advance fee fraud e-mails received each day here at 419 BAITER headquarters.

There are many different types of 419 scam (examples) but they all promise you something (fortune, job with salary/commision, low-interest loan, lottery prize, cheap gold dust/diamonds, work visa, etc.) in return for a small 'fee' or some kind of remittance. Of course, there is no fortune, no job, no loan, no prize to be had. It's just a ploy to get you to willingly send them money.