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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: edwardkoffi@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 12:02:45 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?SUPPLY?=

FROM: EDWARD KOFFI,
ABIDJAN.
COTE D'IVOIRE.

ATTN: THE PRESIDENT
Dearest,
I write to solicite your assistance and support to
enable me execute a very lucrative and high profiting
business transaction.I am very confidence that with
trust and understanding,we can be able to execute this
busines 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 Ivorien based public international firm
(a MIC), I work as the corporate affairs manager.
Between the 17th -19th of may, 2002 a business
seminar was held in BOUAKE Cote Divoire of which I
attended. While in the Seminar, I was opportuned to
meet Alhaji M K AL-MUSTAPHA ,the President of
AL-MUSTAPHA FARMS ETS. Alhaji AL-MUSTAPHA is an
accomplished and widely known and recognised
millionaire farmer in this part of the region. He has
farms in different countries of West Africa. 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 proffesion, Alhaji AL-MUSTAPHA
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 450 cartons. He informed
me that he would like 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 $2,000.00 USD per carton . We moved a
proposal to AL-MUSTAPHA FARMS 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 suply and the
receipt of the payment, my boss renegated 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 M K AL-MUSTAPHA
asking my boss to urgently supply him with 1250
cartons of the same product before the end of
APRIL,2005.I seized the letter and this letter will
never get to my boss.
I then contacted Alhaji M K AL-MUSTAPHA and informed
him that I can introduce him to the main producer of
this vaccine who can supply him the product at
$4,400.00 USD if he will pay in advance
as he usually does. He was very pleased and has
assured me that he is not going to contact my boss
again for this vaccine. He now waiting for me to link
him to the producer of the vaccine.
We will buy the medicine at $2,000.00 USD from EUROPE
and sell at $4,400.00 USD TO Alhaji M K AL-
MUSTAPHA,with him making a down payment of 50% of our
quoted price first.
If you are interested and capable of handling this
supplies on my behalf,kindly get back to me urgently
through my e-mail,so that we can agree on the terms
and profit sharing,after which I can then furnish you
with the contacts of both our source in EUROPE and
that of Alhaji M K AL-MUSTAPHA .
Kindly be notified that at no point in time should you
let ALHAJI M K AL-MUSTAPHA 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 would'nt by pass us to deal directly with
them.
Thanks for your cooperation.
Yours sincerely,
Mr .EDWARD KOFFI








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