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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: "\"Mr. Famous Douglass Linn\" <Fran Pharmaceuticals Company in
London >" <mj605076@tele2.se>
Reply-To: famousdauglass_linn@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 21:04:56 +0000
Subject: Business Proposal



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Dear Good Friend,

I am Mr. Famous Douglass Linn from London in United Kingdom , I am working With Fran Pharmaceuticals Company in London , we are also located in West
Africa and Singapore.. ...

I am the personal secretary to the director; I have been looking for
some one whom I can transact this business with trust. We
are talking about herbal seed called mono herbal
roots (kanamrutakadugandha ) from India .

This herbal seed our company is buying from Kenya at present. This seed can be found only in India, and out Kenya counterpart has been buying it from India
but recently i got the contact of a dealer in India from our Kenya counterpart who is presently hospitalize due to a car accident and the company is in lack of raw material that's more reason am contacting you in regard of this business.
note; that i have the contact of the dealer from India but i don't want to release this contact to my
company,because i need a trust worthy person i can use to get this product and share the profit between our self in percentage values of 30 is to 70%

Sir, my request is if you can invest in buying from the dealer

in India and we will sell this seed to my company
then we can share the profit. I can't easily release
this contact because if my company knows about it, they will condult legal
petition against me, and i can't go to India to buy this seed now
because i don't have the money and our company always buy from 500 to 1500
packets (each packet contains 5 grams).

If you can invest money to buy this seed from the dealer in
India, I will forward you the contact information of the dealer
after this.

Note: That with your contact our company will send the executive purchase
manager to come Indian and buy from you with the company standard sample
and the cash to pay on delivery.
I'm looking forward to hear from you.

Thanks from,
Mr. Famous Douglass Linn
Urgent and confidential
famousdauglass_linn@hotmail.com

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