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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: Idenu Garincha <idenu01@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 03:01:27 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: FROM MR GARINCHA


Dear Mr V
 
My name is Mr Idenu o. Garincha, the Assistance purchase manager of Marcog. Company France. My company needs a raw material which we use for the
manufacturing of medicated glasses, Diamond and golden Jewelries by name DIGIMA DIAMOND MIXTURE.
 
DIGIMA MIXTURE is our major raw material, we buy a gram of Digima Diamond Mixture $780 from dealers in London, recently I discovered a supplier in India  that offered me a gram $365 and quality is the same, I offered my company $515 per gram and they are very happy to buy 5kg.
 
My personal profit in 5kg is $750.000.00 (Seven hundred and fifty thousand US
Dollars).
I am contacting you because my manager will be traveling to India for the purchase in few days time and I will present you as the supplier then I will also give you the contact of where to get the product in India.
 
1, You will act as the middle marketer between the main India Dealers of this product and our company here in France in the sense that you will buy this product from the main dealers at the rate of US$365/per gram and sell to our company at the rate of US$515/per grams after I might have introduced you to our company as the main dealer, and also given you the main dealer's contact in India for you to contact them to know the availability of the product in their stock before our manager will move to India.
 
You will met our purchasing manager on arrival to India, talk with him and introduce yourself as the seller of the product  then you go and purchase from the main dealer, bring the product  to his hotel  finish.
 
My Company is presently running out of stock of this product. If you are interested and promise your honesty in this business please do get in touch with me so that we can reach into an agreement on how to share the profit  before I release the contact of the seller to you so that you discus with him and confirm the availability of the product.  
 
I only want you to assure me that you will be honest with me, and also keep this business secret between both of us, so that our company will not realize that I partnered  with you to inflate the price of the product for my own interest because if they do, as I say, I will loss my job and also my career will be jeopardized. I will tell you more things about this business if I find you are interested to do the business and I will also guide you to the success of it.
 
Regards,
MR.Idenu O.Garincha
 




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