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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: "Donald Kontah" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <supplyunion@cantv.net>
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 20:28:19 +0100
Subject: A Supply Opportunity

From: Mr. Donald Kontah
08 BP 71185, 205 Boulevard
Roume, Rue De L'Industrie, Zone 3,
Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire,
West-Africa
 
Dear Friend,
 
I am writing to ask for your kind assistance to enable me execute
a very lucrative and high profiting supply business with you. It is with
great pleasure to share this business opportunity with you. Please
No Obligation.
 
I am very confident with trust and understanding, we
will execute this business to our mutual benefit and
believe that you will not let down the trust and
confidence I am willing to repose in you.
 
I work for an Agricultural Firm as the Corporate
Affairs Manager. Between the 17th - 19th of March, 2010 a
seminar was held in Bouake, Cote d'ivoire of which I
attended. While in the Seminar, I was opportuned to
meet the President of Ajnara Group Farms, Alhaji Kimah Kama.
 
Alhaji Kimah Kama is an accomplished and widely
known 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 of
cattles,beef and other diary products in this part of
the West Coast. On knowing my profession, He took me
into confidence by informing me about the purchase of
a 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 excess of 850 cartons. He also informed me that he
was only asking 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 these medicine somewhere cheaper in
Europe for $2,000.00 USD per carton. We moved proposal
to Ajnara Group 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 an
agreement with my Boss to be receiving 30% 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 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 recent
letter of request from Alhaji Kimah Kama asking my
boss to supply him with 1250 cartons of the same
product as soon as possible. I seized the letter. And
personally contacted him and informed them that I can
introduce them to the producer who is ready to supply
them the product at $4,400.00 USD. If he will pay in
advance as he usually does. He was very pleased and is
right now waiting to be contacted by my partner.
 
We will buy the medicine at $2,000.00 USD from Europe
and sell at $4,400.00 USD to Ajnara Group Farms with him
first paying 50% of our quoted price as mobilisation.
I will be entitled to 40% of whatever profit we make after the
deduction of all expenses.
 
If you are interested and capable of handling this supply with
me, kindly get back to me urgently so that I can furnish you with
more details and the contacts of the manufacturing company in
Europe and that of Ajnara Group Farms.
 
Kindly be notified that at no point in time should you let Ajnara
Group Farms to know that you are not the producer of the
medicine and we should never allow them to know the contact
of our real source in Europe so that they would'nt boycott us
to deal directly with them.
 
I will very much appreciate you include your telephone number,
so that i can call you for more detailed discussion on our next step.
 
Anticipating to hear from you soonest.
 
Sincerely Yours,
 
Mr. Donald Kontah

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