419 scam: "Purchasing Department" <info@dansracingsupply.com> Urgent!!! Quote needed within 3days.

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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Purchasing Department" <info@dansracingsupply.com>
Reply-To: kentbrian@live.com
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:33:50 +0000
Subject: Urgent!!! Quote needed within 3days.

Hello Sir / Ma,

My Name is Lesley Timnezky andI am the Overseas Business Sales Representative for Nedis Procurement LLC USA.We are a supplies company to a lot of major product wholesalers, Megadistributors and Grand retailers in the western Axis of United States ofAmerica and all Indeed over America, North and South America. The product modelwe are asking you to make for , we have previously been supplied by a companyin Guandong, China. However, due to excessive demand, low quality controlissues our present supplier (We do not wish to disclose because of businessconfidentiality but he is one of your companies main market rivals) has beenunable to meet up with the delivery schedules and the shortfall is beginning tobring a deficit on our part. Please note that Quality is very important to us.Below is the link to a shared file,kindly download the attachment in the folderto get full details of our order including required quantity and pictures of asample product model we have previously produced.

Click below to download product samples.

http://bit.ly/zwA9R9

We need to have the same exact as is in the sample pictures. After viewing ourorder please kindly send me a quote and include delivery terms for sample andactual order, payment methods, discount on large quantities, MOQ and terms andany further information you would need to give me by mail and I would call youon the number listed. Dont forget to drop a direct contact number. Please treatas urgent and reply in 3days.
Regards,
Lesley Timnezky

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