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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: Andrew Alassan <alassanandrew4@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: <alassanandrew@yahoo.cn>
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 08:28:42 +0000
Subject: A Vaccine Supply Inquiry


A Vaccine Supply Opportunity
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 Aug., 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 Adjara
Group Farms, Alhaji Koman Coulibaly. Alhaji Koman Coulibaly 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
Adjara 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 fate may have
it, I intercepted a recent letter of request from Alhaji Koman Coulibaly
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 Adjara Group Farms with him first paying 50% of our
quoted price as mobilization. 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 Adjara Group Farms. Kindly be notified that at no point in time
should you let Adjara 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 wouldn't 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. Andrew Alassane

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