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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: Emma Luise Howarth <emmahowarth18@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: emmahowarth@post.com
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 08:54:52 -0500
Subject: REPLY ON THIS Business ProposaL IF INTERESTED

Dear Sir,

I hope my email finds you well.

My name is Emma Howarth, I am from London UK. The company I worked
with before was a distributor of Cooking Oil to a United Kingdom
company before I quit the company for a different company. The client
who normally purchase cooking oil from my previous company called me
for more supply of Cooking Oil. So I am looking for trustworthy and
honest partnership for this long term business transaction.

I have bought the cooking oil before in Malaysia at the rate of $550
American dollars per metric ton of which I sold to my client at the
rate of $980 American dollar per metric ton. My client himself
supplies to fast-food shops and restaurants here in London.

But this time I will not be able to fly over to Malaysia for the
conclusion of the business, because of my position now at the new
company where I work presently, since you are near to Asia(Malaysia),
I was wondering if you are interested to take up this opportunity, I
can give you the contact of the supplier in Malaysia and connect you
with the client who is in need of this cooking oil, so you and I can
share the profit margin on it as my client is ready to fly over to
Malaysia for the oil at any moment and he's ready to purchase 200
metric tons (Two hundred metric tons).

From my quick calculation, there is a profit of about USD80,000 in
each batch you purchase from the factory and resell to my client. And
this will go on for a yearly contract or six months minimum contract
of supply. If it goes yearly contract, we are making
USD960,000.00(Nine Hundred Sixty Thousand US Dollars) profit and if it
goes for on six months contract we are making USD480,000 (Four Hundred
Eighty Thousand US Dollars) profit. You can see that this is a win win
business supply! The buyer will carter for the shipment by himself, he
got all needed license for importation as required by the UK law,
including custom clearances.

The factory visit is 100% allowed also in Malaysia before payment for
the goods. Also my client will be available there to carry the goods
right from Malaysia and then ship to UK. I don't want to introduce the
Factory over there in Malaysia to my client directly because of the
profit margin. Kindly get back to me for more details if you are
interested.

Best Regards
Ms Emma Howarth.
Tel:+44-703 182 6570




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