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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: "I WORK WITH CRYSTAL LABORATORIES COMPANY" (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 14:33:30 +0530
Subject: WHOM I CAN TRANSACT THIS BUSINESS WITH TRUST

Sincere greetings and due respect to you, I am Mr Williams James, i work with crystal laboratories company here in Oxford UK, i am the personal secretary to the director, accept my apologies for invading in your privacy, I got your brief contact from a comprehensive online search, i have been looking for someone whom i can transact a particular business with trust.
My company need of a product urgently which can only be found in India at this moment, i have the contact of the local dealer in India with me.

All am asking you to do is just to be buying this product from the local dealer in India, and sell to my company at higher rate, I will be comfortable with 20 percent of the profit after the business, this is just a simple legitimate buying and selling.

The name of this product is (TAGGRI H2) HERBAL SEEDS, and the contact of the local dealer was giving to me privately by our Kenyan counterpart who is presently hospitalized due to auto crash in last October, they said the seed is sold in India at rate of $75 US DOLLAR per packet, we can sale to our company at $170 US DOLLAR per packet, 5grams make 1 packet, my company always buy 1500 to 2000 packets at a time, it depends on how much you can invest, we really need this product at this moment, as our companies production has been put on hold, due to lack of this product.

I don't want my company to know this local dealer's office, because I want to present a dealer that I can introduce to my company and after the deal I can make 20% of the profit made in this transaction, that is why am looking for someone who can stand as a dealer, invest money and buy it from the local dealer, even if you can’t supply all the 2000 at once, you can make an agreement with our company with your capacity, may be, by supply to them 3 times or 2 times.

Please I don't want you to disappoint me in this business, my 20% from the profit is very important. I would kindly request you to send your full information to me before I can give you the Indian seller contact, and my companies directors contact details, I really want to know who am dealing with.




Send me the info below.....




Full Name......

Full Address.....

Contact No.......

Age.....




I await your reply immediately in my private email (jameswilliam00@hotmail.com) if you can handle this for me.




Regards.


Mr. James Williams.


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