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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: "alain konan" <konaalain6@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: konan_alain06@yahoo.fr
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 06:43:39 +0100
Subject: SUPPLY FROM MR KONAN ALAIN

SUPPLY FROM MR KONAN ALAIN

Abidjan.Cote d'Ivoire.

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.I am very sure that with
trust and understanding,we will 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 Divoire of which I attended.While in the Seminar, I
was opportuned to meet ALHAJI NURUDEEN ALI MAHMOUD ,the President of
ALI-MAHMOUD DAIRY & CATTLE FARMS ETS. ALHAJI NURUDEEN ALI MAHMOUD
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
ALI MAHMOUD 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 ALI-MAHMOUD 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 ALI
MAHMOUD and he informed me that he would want us to urgently supply him
with 1250 cartons of the same product before the end of Dec 2006.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 ALI MAHMOUD,with him making a down
payment of 50% of our quoted price first.

If you are interested and capable of handling this supplies on my
behalf,kindly get back to me urgently through my e-mail,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 ALI
MAHMOUD . Kindly be notified that at no point in time should you let ALHAJI
NURUDEEN ALI MAHMOUD 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 KONAN ALAIN

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