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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: "Masters Supply Co." <alfredkamine@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: masters.supply@yahoo.com.ph
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 18:08:29 +0100
Subject: A Product Supply Inquiry



Greetings,

Please receive my greetings and wishes for good health, personal and
professional accomplishments. My name is Alfred Kamine Kore.

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 May, 2012 an Agricultural seminar was held in Bouake,
Cote D'ivoire of which I attended. While in the Seminar, I was
opportune to meet a man who is the Chairman/CEO of his company. He is
an accomplished, widely known and recognised 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 cattle. He informed me
that he buys this product at $5,000.00 USD per carton, and that he
mostly buys to the excess of 1500 cartons. He informed me that he was
only asking me to find out if my organization 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 $2,700.00 USD per carton. We moved a
proposal to the client ie. the farmer 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 35% 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
renegaded on our agreement and refused to give me my share of the
profit. Since then our relationship has been at its lowest ebb. I have
since accepted it as one of life experiences.

However as fate may have it, recently I intercepted a letter of
request from the
farmer asking my boss to supply him with 1500 cartons of the same
product as soon as possible. I seized the letter and this letter will
never get to my boss. I personally contacted the farmer and informed
him that I can introduce
him to the real producer who is ready to supply him 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 $2,700.00 USD from Europe and sell at
$4,400.00 USD
to the client with them first paying 50% of our quoted price in
advance. 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 so that I can furnish you with the contacts of both our source in
Europe and that of the client ie. the buyer.

Be notified that at no point in time should you let the farmer ie. the
buyer to know that you are not the producer of the medicine and we
should never allow him to know the contact of our real source in
Europe so that he wouldn't boycott us to deal directly with them.

Looking forward to your response for further discussion & long term
business relationship.

Warm Regards,

Mr. Alfred Kamine Kore.

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