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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: VINCENT <vincentakesoro@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 18:58:06 +0000
Subject: A very lucrative supply business

Greetings,

Please receive my greetings and wishes for good health, personal and professional
accomplishments.

I am writing to ask for your kind assistance to enable me execute a very lucrative and high profiting supply business with you. It is with great pleasure to share this business opportunity with you. Please No Obligation.

I am very confident with trust and understanding, we will 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 Agricultural firm as the Corporate Affairs Manager. Between the 17th -19th of May, 2012 an Agricultural seminar was held in Bouake, Cote D'ivoire of which I attended. While in the Seminar, I was opportuned to meet a man who is the Chairman/CEO of his company. He is an accomplished, widely known and recognised 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 cattles, beef and other diary products in this part of the West Coast.

On knowing my profession, he took me into confidence by informing me about the purchase of a particular but very rare medicine for his cattles. He informed me that he buys this product at $5,000.00 USD per carton, and that he mostly buys to the excess of 1500 cartons. He informed me that he was only asking me to find out if my organisation 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 these medicine somewhere cheaper in Europe for $2,700.00 USD per carton. We moved a proposal to client 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 Boss to be receiving 35% 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 re negated 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 fate would have it, recently, I intercepted a letter of request from client asking my boss to supply him with 1500 cartons of the same product as soon as possible. I seized the letter and this letter will never get to my boss. I personally contacted farmer 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 $2,700.00 USD from Europe and sell at $4,400.00 USD to the client with them first paying 50% of our quoted price in advance. I will be entitled to 40% of whatever profit we make after the deduction of all expenses.

If you are interested and capable of handling this supply with me, kindly get back to me, so that I can furnish you with the contacts of both our source in Europe and that of the client.

Be notified that at no point in time should you let buyer to know that you are not the producer of the medicine and we should never allow him to know the contact of our real
source in Europe so that he wouldn't boycott us to deal directly with them.

Looking forward to your response for further discussion & long term business relationship.

Best Wishes and Warm Regards

Mr. Vincent Akesoro

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