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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!

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From: "Marthin Zuma" <marthinzuma@walla.com> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:45:19 +0100
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL




Atten Sir, Compliment of the season,i am very greatful in
writing you this mail.

My name is Mr MARTINS ZUMA, a South African national
living in THE U.K.
I got your contact from a senegalise friend that i met
casually in a france restaurant last week when i travelled
there with my Saudi Arabian boss. And during my chat with him, i told
him that i need an honest person that can represent my interest in
senegal or Gambia and he said that you can be of an assistance to me.
I would like to handle a business with you which
is as follows below.


I work as a Personal Assistant to a Saudi Arabian
National, Sheik Abdulaziz Altikurt here in the U.K and
the man has a big company here which deals in
manufacturing of animal medicine/vaccine for animal treatment,
animals like Goat, Horse, Sheep and all the rest of
them.

The raw materials we use in our company, we normally
use to go to your neigbouring country the Gambia to purchase them. I
was doing the business with a woman by name Maimuna
Jallow who died of motor accident in august last year and
since then, we have not been able to travel for the
business
So this is why i need a partner in The
Gambia or senegal who can represent my interest.

The business is that i would like you to act as a
middle person who will buy out these products at a
cheap price and when i come with my boss you re-sell
to us at a high price which i will fix and i
share the profit with
you
which my boss will not know about.

The name of the product is ZUL SOLUTION.
The price for one bottle by the indian agent there in
the Gambia is $450 USD and my boss is going to pay $1,350 USD
for one bottle and in each of the bottle we are going
to make a profit of $850 USD for one bottle.

My boss needs three hundred bottles of this product and
he is going to pay $390, 000 USD as at $1,300.00 USD for one
bottle and you are going to buy the 300 bottles $135,
000. 00 USD as at $450 USD for one. If you subtract $135,
000.00 USD from $390, 000.00 USD it is going to give you
4255, 000.00 USD which is what i am going to share with
you 50% each which should be $127, 500. 00 USD each for
both of us and which is where my interest lies.

I know that to buy the 300 bottles will be expensive
for you, so what i want you to do is to buy out 5
bottles of this products as sample
before our arrival.


You have to come along with the samples to receive us at the airport and On our arrival you will take us to the hotel from the
airport and as soon as we get to the hotel i will
introduce you to my boss as the new seller of the
product in the Gambia and as late mrs Maimuna Jallow's
uncle just for trust and confident to be mentained
because the lady was a nice woman.

After the introduction, my boss will ask you for the
product and you show him the 5 samples which you have
to buy prior to our arrival and on seeing the 5
samples he will give you cash $390,000.00 USD and from the
money he gave you, you go back to the seller of the
product and buy the remaining 295 bottles but you will
tell us to give you 1 hour interval. From that money,
you take $135.000.00 USD and go to the seller and buy the
remaining 295.

Before coming to
hotel with the remaining quantity
you remove our
profit which is $255,000 USD.
When you reach to our hotel, you supply us and after
supplying the goods, you ask me for a dinner and we
shall both go to your residence and share our profit
and business is closed.

This is how we will be doing it on three months to four months
interval but the quantity will always defer.
This is a legal and legitimate business
where we can be splitting few thousands of dollars.
The product is locally produced in Pakistan and sold
by an Indian agent in Gambia, the next place it is
sold is Libya but we prefer Gambia because of the
political and economical stablility in your country..


Pls don't tell him that you are going to resell it
$1300.00 USD.It's not his business.

As soon as you confirm from him that the
goods are
available, please contact me immediatelly so that we
can arrange for our visit which must be thursday via SN BRUSSELLS because we are in lack of the raw materials in the company now.
The arrival time is 18.20 GMT your local time.

My boss is only waiting on me for finalization of the
process before our departure. As soon as you confirm to me the availabilty of the products, i will inform him to confirm our ticket.

I prefer telephone communication for a faster
communication because we have only tomorrow to conclude this arrangement.

My number is 0044 7031920843 and i would like you to
call me with this number as soon as you receive this
mail and from there we proceed.

Best regards,Mr MARTINS.


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