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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: "Dr MAXWELL GIPIA" <home_maxweell@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: doc_maxwall@excite.com
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 06:08:39 +0800
Subject: URGENT ASSISTANCE

Hello,
Greeting to you.
My name is Dr MAXWELL GIPIA, from England, I am a supply of Gentamacyn 1000xp,I have been coming to Malaysia to buy this product and supply to the farm industries here in London.

I normally supply veterinary medicines to a Vet doctor usually here in London and coincidentally the medical Consultant / Chief Executive of a Community Farms London - a ranch that rears cattle (cow),horse and other domestic animals, numbering over twenty thousand need a supply now.

Consequently, i use to contacted my friend Mr. Mohammed Shah is i could not be able to make it to Malaysia, but unfortunately it’s not been possible to locate him, nor get access to his current phone number i do not know if he had traveled out of Malaysia or what?. It is based on this that i decided to contact a reliable person who will make this supplies on my behave.

This doctor from London who normally comes to buy this veterinary medicine (Animal Injection) known as GENTAMACYN XP 1000 I.U is used mainly for prophylactic and curative therapy of trypomniasis in cattle due to the inducement of a pathogenic substance into the cattle by an insect known as Tsetse fly which causes the cattle to sleep and reduces the activity of the cattle as well as its reproductive system.
It is a Malaysian product, and there is a local distributor in Malaysia whom i use to buy from her, and it is sold at the rate of RM 6,500.00 per bottle x 10 in one carton and resells back to the doctor at the price of RM 12,500.00 per bottle x 10 in one carton.

This business is in this dimension as you will not take the doctor to the main distributor where we usually buy this product for him to avoid direct transaction from the source, since this is where we make our profits; as a result we normally make the purchase on his arrival and resell thereafter share the profits after mapping out the money input costs. The sharing ratio from the profit is 60% to you as the sponsor and 40% to me.

I don't know if we can make this together as this is a long time and continuous business, if this is acceptable to you get back to me ASAP. And contact me through this my personal and important email ( doc_maxwall@excite.com <mailto:doc_maxwall@excite.com> )
Your Sincerely
Dr MAXWELL GIPIA



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