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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: "Dr. David Martins" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dr.davidmartins1@live.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 06:42:30 -0300
Subject: OUR COMPANY URGENT NEEDED


My dear friend,

Our company will be needing your product in the near future but now, my director is in search of a chemical for animal drug and this chemical is only produced in your country. Our company had a supplier (Agent) who normally purchases the chemical from a local dealer there in your country but unfortunately we lost the supplier (Agent) as he died some few months ago. But I personally know where our supplier used to purchase the chemical in your country because I have found out from one of the receipts which were issued to him when he last came to supply 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 can buy from them and sell to my director at a high price. The local dealers in your country use to sell the chemical to our late supplier (Agent) at the rate of $32,000 per 1 gallon (5 liters) and then my director used to give our late supplier officer $61,000 to purchase each gallon (5 liters) so you can see that our supplier (Agent) has been making a lot of profit from our company. I would want you to be a Supplier (Agent) to our company in your country so that you and i will be sharing the profits that you will be making from my company. But as an employee in this company, I would not want my director to know I am involved with any transaction concerning my 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 my company where you will contact them and let them know you are a supplier of the product and then I will also give you the contact of the local dealers in your country as well to negotiate with them and buy from them 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 need 65 gallons and in each gallon will fetch us a profit of $29,000 multiplied by the 65 gallons 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.

Also in the near future, you will be our company’s best agent and also you will be supplying your own products to our company. Consider all these and let me know how we are going to share the profits for this first transaction. If your sharing with me is OK by me, i will prepare a Memorandum of Understanding for you and I to sign before I proceed to give you the contacts of the local dealers in your country and that of our company too.
I will wait your reply and call on my phone line.

Best Regards,
Dr. David Martins
United Kingdom
Email: dr.davidmartins1@live.com

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