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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: "BENE MARWARKI," <bene42@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: benemar2@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 18:51:31 +0400
Subject: BENE MARWARKI,

My Dear Friend,
I got your contact through Internet search and I want to establish a business relationship with you.

I work as agent to a company here in South Africa and the company deals in manufacturing of animal medicine for animal treatment and the chemical used in manufacturing this medicine is sold in Dubai

You can visit our website to know more about the company at:
www.orgsites.com/ia/lexia
I and the white man who is the boss and president of this company normally go U.A.E in purchase of this chemical for more than one year now and we normally comes every three to four months in purchase of this material.

I was formally doing this business with Mrs Rajah Azizi who died recently and now I don't know any other person to handle the business with so that is why I want to handle the business with you.

The business is this, I just want you to act as a middle person to buy this chemical out from the real sellers at a cheaper price and re-sell to me and my boss the White man at a higher price and we share the profit.

The real price is $2000 for one bottle but you will re-sell to us at $4,800 and our profit for each bottle is $2800, so now the white-man want us to visit Dubai to purchase 200 bottles of the product at a total cost of $960,000,00 for the 200 bottles and our profit will be $560,000.00 and we share it equally $280,000,00 each.

The name of the product is Cloniarine and the seller is in Dubai so if you can handle the business then I will give you the phone number of the seller in Dubai so that you can contact him and find out if he has the chemical and you can buy from him at at cheep price and resell to us on arrival to your country on a higher price and we share the profit.

We are ready to fly down to your country to purchase this product as soon as you indicate your readiness to handle the business,so please if you are interested write me back and I will give you more details as soon as I hear from you and we will arrange for our coming within 24 hours.

This product is a legal commodity and is not against the Government but the only problem is that it is not on commercial sells, and is meant for big companies like ours.

This is a very lucrative business where we can split few thousands of Dollars genuinely every two to three months and remember the white man must not know our purchase point.

kindly give me your private mobile phone number so that I can call you for oral discussions and note that I do not speak or write french but I managed to translate this mail through the help of computer for your easy understanding.
Email:benemar2@yahoo.co.uk
Thanks
BENE MARWARKI,
Tel:27-826933445






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