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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: Bright Magnus <bright_magnus@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 12:15:23 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Supply From Mr Bright Magnus


Supply From Mr Bright Magnus,
Abidjan.Cote d' Ivoire.
Email: bright_magnus@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: +225 07750581

Attn:The President

Dear Sir,

I write to solicite your assistance and support to enable me execute a
very lucrative and high profiting business transaction.therefore, I am very sure
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
I
am willing to repose in you.

I work for an Ivorien based import and export firm (A MIC), I work
product
sourcing manager. Between the 17th -19th of may, 2002 a business
seminar
was held in BOUAKE Cote D' Ivoire of which I attended. While in the
Seminar, I was opportuned to meet ALHAJI NURUDEEN MOHAMMAD ,the
President
of AHMADIYYA DAIRY & CATTLE FARMS ETS. ALHAJI NURUDEEN MOHAMMAD is an
accomplished and widely known and recognised millionaire farmer in
this
part of the region. He has cattle farms in different countries. 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 NURUDEEN MOHAMMAD 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 this medicine somewhere cheaper in
EUROPE for $2,000.00 USD per carton . We moved a proposal to AHMADIYYA
DAIRY & CATTLE FARMS ETS. 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 ran into ALHAJI NURUDEEN
MOHAMMAD and he informed me that he would want us to urgently supply
him
with 1250 cartons of the same product as soon as porsible. I used the
oppurtunity to inform Alhaji 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 is 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
NURUDEEN MOHAMMAD,with him making a down payment of 50% of our quoted
price first.
Therfore, I'm using this medium of opportunity as a gateway to our blissful togetherness, so
If you are interested and capable of handling this supplies on my
behalf,kindly get back to me urgently through my
e-mail,(david_sowatey@yahoo.co.uk) 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 NURUDEEN MOHAMMAD . Kindly
be
notified that at no point in time should you let ALHAJI NURUDEEN
MOHAMMAD
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 bypass us to deal directly with them.

Thanks for your cooperation.

Yours sincerely,

Mr Bright Magnus,


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