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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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Fraud email example:

From: Yao Donald <yao.donald8@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <yao.donald@katamail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 13:22:38 +0200
Subject: From: Mr. Yao Donald



From: Mr. Yao DonaldAbidjan - Cote D'Ivoire,West Africa.

Dear Friend,

I am writing to ask for your kind assistance to enableme execute a very lucrative and high profiting supplybusiness with you. It is with great pleasure to sharethis business opportunity with you. Please NoObligation.

I am very confident with trust and understanding,wewill execute this business to our mutual benefit andbelieve that you will not let down the trust andconfidence I am willing to repose in you.

I work for an Agricultural Firm as the CorporateAffairs Manager. Between the 17th - 19th of July, 2006 a seminar was held in Bouake, Cote d'ivoire of which Iattended. While in the Seminar, I was opportuned tomeet the President of Oriental Farms, Alhaji OusmaneDiallo.

Alhaji Ousmane Diallo is an accomplished and widelyknown millionaire farmer in this part of the region.He has farms in different countries of West Africa.But above all, he is one of the greatest supplier ofcattles,beef and other diary products in this part ofthe West Coast. On knowing my profession, He took meinto confidence by informing me about the purchase ofa particular but very rare medicine for his cattles.He informed me that he buys this product at $5,000.00USD per carton, and that he mostly buys to the excessof 850 cartons. He also informed me that he was onlyasking me to find out if my organisation could sourcefor him a cheaper supplier considering the recenttrend of falls in the general price of beef in theworld market which is affecting his business.
Back in my office, I discussed this proposal with myboss and he decided to handle the supply by himself.We carried out a market research and discovered thatwe could purchase these medicine somewhere cheaper inEurope for $2,000.00 USD per carton. We moved proposalto Oriental Farms 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 anagreement with my Boss to be receiving 25% of whatevergain is made on each supply of which he agreed. But onthe completion of the supply and the receipt of the payment, my boss renegade on our agreement and refused to give me my share of the profit. Since then our relationship has been at its low ebb. I have since accepted it as one of life experiences.

However as God may have it, I intercepted a recentletter of request from Alhaji Ousmane Diallo asking myboss to supply him with 1250 cartons of the sameproduct as soon as possible. I seized the letter andpersonally contacted him and informed them that I canintroduce them to the producer who is ready to supplythem the product at $4,400.00 USD if he will pay inadvance as he usually does. He was very pleased and isright now waiting to be contacted by my partner.

We will buy the medicine at $2,000.00 USD from Europeand sell at $4,400.00 USD to Oriental Farms with himfirst paying 50% of our quoted price as mobilisation.I will be entitled to 30% of whatever profit we makeafter the deduction of all expenses.

If you are interested and capable of handling thissupply with me, kindly get back to me urgently so thatI can furnish you with more details and the contactsof the manufacturing company in Europe and that ofOriental Farms.

Kindly be notified that at no point in time should youlet Oriental Farms to know that you are not theproducer of the medicine and we should never allowthem to know the contact of our real source in Europeso that they would'nt boycott us to deal directly withthem.

I will very much apprecaite your call on receipt ofthis mail for more detailed discussion on our nextstep. This is to show your real interest.

Anticipating to hearing from you soonest.

Sincerely Yours,

Mr. Yao DonaldTel: +22507711719
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