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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: "Mrs Josephine Cherie Edwards" <kontactemail5@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: jcedwards1@mail.ru
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:13:18 -0700
Subject: Lucrative supply of cattle medicine with you.

Dearest Friend,

Good Morning.

You might be surprise to receive this letter from me,considering the fact that you do not know me but i know that this letter might not come to you as a surprise either,since your organization is so well advertised.

First i must seek for your kindest understanding and with hope that you will have the wisdom to understand this matter and be in a position to help and assist.

But before i go on,i want to sincerely apologize for disturbing you as this letter might be termed unsolicited by you since its being written to you without your prior consent.

However,I am writing based on the prevailing information I gathered about your company in the line of my job.I,for this reason,have confidence that you are able to execute this business with me to our mutual benefit.I am also of the believe that you will not let down the trust and confidence that I am here prepared to repose on you.

I work with a Public Relations company "ASSOCIATED CORPORATE SOLUTION" based in ACCRA-GHANA,as the company's Corporate Affairs manager.

Between the 16th.-18th. of May 2005,a business seminar was held at BANJUL,THE GAMBIA which I attended.While attending the seminar,I was opportune to meet Macknight Fordjour-Danquah,the President of Vonberg Farms.

Macknight Fordjour-Danquah is an accomplished and widely known millionaire farmer from this part of the world.He is an accomplished agriculturalist who specialized in cattle farming and other diary products for export with farms in several other parts of the West African Sub-region.Vonberg Farms is one of the greatest suppliers of cattle,beef and other dairy products in Africa.

On getting to know my profession,Macknight Fordjour Danquah took some interest in me and even felt at liberty to speak out to me on certain issues within my area of work.Infact he took me into confidence.

He went on to relate to me the huge sums of money he spends on the purchase of a certain,but very important medicine for his cattle. He informed me that he spent about Euros 5,000 for the purchase of one carton of the medicine and that he often requires about 200 cartons for each purchase.

He informed me that he was only asking me to find out if my organization could source out for him a cheaper supplier considering the recent trend of events in the world market which is affecting his business.

Back in my office, I discussed the business proposal with my Director and he decided to handle the supply by himself. We carried out market research and discovered that we could purchase the cattle medicine cheaper in Europe for Euros 2,000.per carton.

We then made a proposal to Vonberg Farms to make the supply to them at Euros 4,800.per carton, which they happily accepted. Owing to my role in the whole arrangement,I had an initial agreement with my director to receive 15% of whatever profit that accrues from each supply.

But on the 22nd of July 2005, when the first supply of 120 cartons were made to Vonberg Farms, my director decided to renegade on our agreement. He refused to give me anything near to what we had agreed, he only gave me what he called a token of appreciation.

When I protested this, he threatened to dismiss me from work,saying afterall that i am a woman.I decided to overlook this betrayal of confidence, but after then our relationship ceased to be cordial. He never said anything to me about further supplies to Vonberg Farms and I thus assumed that the business relationship had discontinued.

But towards the end of last month,I intercepted mails from Vonberg Farms to my director.I was shocked to discover that he had since made three further supplies to Vonberg Farms which I knew nothing about. I considered this very unfair of my director.Moreso,Vonberg Farms was then requesting for another supply of 450 cartons of this medicine following a suspected outbreak of disease among their cattle in Mali.

They requested that the medicine be supplied as soon as possible.The letters have not up till date reached my director, and they never will.Instead I called Vonberg Farms and convinced them that I will arrange for the supply of the medicine at the price of Euros 4,400.per carton. At the moment Vonberg Farms is waiting for me or my foreign contact as they have agreed to stop all further dealings with my director.

Vonberg Farms will pay 50% upfront mobilization fee for the supply before the supply commences.If you can handle this supply,please contact me immediately for further details on how to go about it and negotiations on what is to be my commission.

Note: Vonberg Farms must never know that our purchase source is Europe.If not,they will not be in need of our services anymore.

Thank you and best regards,

MRS JOSEPHINE CHERIE EDWARDS
ASSOCIATED CORPORATE SOLUTION
P.O.BOX,388 MTS, EAST OKAI,
ACCRA-GHANA.




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