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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: "Adams Bello" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <bellodams@yahoo.cn>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 06:23:48 -0700
Subject: Proposition: High Profit Venture

FROM: Adams Bello.

Dear sir,

I write to solicit your assistance and support to enable me execute a very lucrative and high profiting business transaction. I am very confident that with trust and understanding, we can execute this business to our mutual benefit and believe that you will not let down the trust and confidence I am willing to repose in you. I work for an Ghanaian based public international firm (AXIM RDC LTD), I work as the corporate affairs manager. Between the 17th -19th of May, 2008 a business seminar was held in Kumasi, Ghana of which I attended. While in the Seminar, I was opportuned to meet Alhaji Bostra, the President of ALHAJI A.U BOSTRA FARMS PLC ACCRA GHANA.

Alhaji A.U Bostra is an accomplished and widely known millionaire farmer in this part of the region. He has farms in different countries of West Africa. But above all, he is one of the greatest supplier of cattle, beef and other diary products in this part of the coast. On getting to know my profession, Alhaji Bostra took me into confidence by informing me about the purchase of a particular but very important medicine for his cattle. He informed me that he buys this product at $5,000.00 USD per carton, and that he mostly buys to the excess of 2000 cartons. He informed me that he was only asking me to find out if my organization could source for him a cheaper supplier considering the recent trend of falls in the general price of beef in the world market which is affecting his business. Back in my office, I discussed this proposal with my boss and he decided to handle the supply by himself.

We carried out a market research and discovered that we could purchase this medicine some what cheaper in LONDON for $2,000.00 USD per carton. We moved proposal to ALHAJI A U BOSTRA FARMS PLC to make the supply to them at $4,800.00 USD per carton of which he accepted. Owing to my role in the transaction, I had an agreement with my director to be receiving 15% of whatever gain is made on each supply of which he agreed. But on the completion of the supply and the receipt of the payment, my boss renegade on our agreement and refused to give me my share of the profit. Since then our relationship has been at its lowest ebb. I have since accepted it as one of life experiences.

However, as GOD would have it, recently, I intercepted a letter of request from Alhaji Bostra asking my boss to supply him with 1000 cartons of the same product within the next three weeks. I seized the letter and this letter has not and will never get to my boss. I personally contacted Alhaji Bostra and informed him that I can introduce him to the producer who is ready to supply him the product at $4,400.00 USD if he will pay in advance as he usually does. He was very pleased and is right now waiting to be contacted by my partner. We will buy the medicine at $2,000.00 USD from LONDON and sell at $4,400.00 USD TO Alhaji with him first paying 50% of our quoted price in advance. I will be entitled to 20% of whatever profit we make after the deduction of all expenses.

If you are interested and is capable of handling this supply with me, kindly get back to me urgently through my e-mail so that I can furnish you with the contacts of both our primary source in LONDON and that of Alhaji Bostra. Kindly be notified that at no point in time should Alhaji Bostra suspect that you are not the producer of the medicine and we should never allow him know the contact of our real source in LONDON as not to allow him cut us out by dealing directly with them.

I hope to receive your response and I thank you in Anticipation of your cooperation.

Yours sincerely,
Adams Bello.

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