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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.
- The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "alexjoe.appiah@live.com" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
- This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Fraud email example:
From: "Joe Alexander" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <alexjoe.appiah@live.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 03:49:10 +0530
Subject: MY COMPANY URGENT NEED
Dear Friend,
Our company is in search of a legal chemical for animal drug .and this chemical is only produced in your country India. Our company had a procurement officer who normally came to your country to purchase the chemical from a local dealer there in your country but unfortunately we lost the procurement officer as he died some few months ago. But i personally know where our procurement officer used to purchase the chemical in your country because i have found out from one of the receipts which was issued to him when he last came to purchase the chemical before his untimely death of which my director does not know about this.
Now i will give you the contact of the local dealers in your country to call and confirm if they still have the chemical in stock so that you will know how to get the product from them or you can buy from them and sell to my director at a very high price. The local dealers in your country use to sell the chemical to our late procurement officer at the rate of $29,000 per a gallon or a carton and my director used to give our late purchasing officer $57,000 in each carton or gallon. I would want you to be an agent to our company in your country so that you and i will be sharing the profits that you will be making from Our Company. But as an employee in this company, i would not want my director to know i am involved with any transaction concerning Our Company and you because it is against the policy of the company.
Let me hear from you so that i can give you the contact of the local dealers in your country and also give you the contact of my company as well. Also I would like to know how we will be sharing the profits that you will be earning from our company. My director will be needing 50-80 gallon/cartons and in each cartons/gallon will fetch us a profit of $28,000 multiplied by the 50 or 80 gallons/cartons that my director is going to purchase and from there you will know how much profit that we are going to make from the transaction.
If your sharing with me is ok by me, i will proceed to give you the contact of the local dealers in your country and that of Our Company here in Aberdeen Scotland.
Our company is into production of Pharmaceutical products and Animal Vaccines. There are some anti-viral materials that Our Company needs for the production of our Animal Vaccines and Anti-viral drugs.
I wait for your reply
Regards
Joe.Appiah
alexjoe.appiah@live.com
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