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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • nanapeters79@rocketmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • nana_nanapeters1@rediffmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Nana Peters <nanapeters79@rocketmail.com>
Reply-To: nana_nanapeters1@rediffmail.com
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:25:02 -0800 (PST)
Subject: From: consulting firm (AMIC)


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: nanapeters79@rocketmail.com



- Good Day,I hope this mail finds you well & healthy and I hope we can established a relationship since we are meeting for the first time,I have gone through a profile that speaks good of you and it interests me to contact you for an assistance to help me I am Nana Peter, what I cherish most in life is honesty,trust, love, truth, caring,& respect,I have all this qualities in me and I believe you have all this qualities too, that is why I decided to contact you for this transaction I believe I shall do this business successfully with you provided that we shall have common understanding and work with trust and one spirit for our mutual benefit I work for a Ghana based import and export consulting firm(AMIC),I work as a product sourcing manager.Between the 17th -19th of May, 2006 a business seminar was held here in Accra- Ghana of which I attended.While in the Seminar, I was opportune to meet ALHAJI ISSA IDRIS, the President of ISSA IDRIS DAIRY & CATTLE FARMS ETS. ALHAJI ISSA IDIRIS is an accomplished and widely known and recognized millionaire farmer in this part of the region.He has cattle farms in different countries. Above all,he is one of the greatest suppliers of cattle,beef and other diary products in this part of the coast,on getting to know my profession,ALHAJI ISSA IDRIS 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 organization 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 ISSA IDRIS 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 supply and the receipt of the payment,my boss relegated 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, I ran into ALHAJI ISSA IDRIS and he informed me that he would want us to urgently supply him with 1250 cartons of the same product before the end of this Dec, 2008, I used the opportunity 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 the cost of $2, 000.00 USD from EUROPE and sell at $4,400.00 USD TO ALHAJI ISSA IDRIS, with him making a down payment of 50% to you of our quoted price first.If you are interested and capable of handling this supplies on my behalf,kindly get back to me urgently.I will like you to contact me, via this above email address.(nana_nanapeters1@rediffmail.com)Thanks and best regards.Nana Peters product sourcing manager

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