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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:

Fraud email example:

From: Ms.Gloria Dede <ms.gloriadede@gmail.com>
Reply-To: gloriaded001@voila.fr
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:20:18 -0700
Subject: WAITING FOR YOUR REPLY

Dear Sir,

Sorry for intruding into your mail box.

Having gone through your company profiles after i came in contact with your direct email address i find out that the medicine our company is seeking for is not among in your list and from every indication reference to the details of profle, i find out that your company is capable of handling any project not minding the wide range of the business.

Therefore is my privilege and desire to introduce this business proposal to you as we have 100% chances to make good profit in it. Now our company here in Ghana ran out of stock of this medicinal food supplement which we use in the production of some animal drugs and this medicinal food supplement is only found in your country India since ever we started making use of the medicine. And i only have the contact address of this particular Local Dealer in your country because i am the company PRO that worked with the former boss before this present one came inception.

However, i will be willing to give you the contact of the local dealer in your country So that you can negotiate from them and sell to my boss at a very high rate since it has been a big task for them to locate the contact address of this local dealer and i also have refused to disclose it to them so that i can make money out of the contact address if i can find a partner in India that can stand at the gap of the local dealer and supply the medicine to our company for both of us to share the profit made out of it in 50/50 ratio.

The local dealer is selling the medicinal food supplement at the rate of $35,000,00 per liter and my boss will be willing to buy from you at the rate of $65,000,00 per liter because the demands from our customers is rising dally, even from Ghana Ministry of Agriculture which are our major buyers.

So what i my saying is that all you need to do is to contact our company and indicate to them that you are a dealer of this product which they are seeking for and will be willing to introduce your product and to be a supplier to them, therefore if you are interested kindly indicate so that i can forward both the contact of our company over hear and the local dealer of the product over there so that we can proceed with the business.

Already my company have sent a publication notice to the Ghana chambers of commerce in-case someone else has the medicinal food supplement in stock for sales.

I wait for your reply,

Regards,
Ms.Gloria Dede
Accra, Ghana


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