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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: Gerald <g.kwakou2004@gmx.fr>
Reply-To: g.kwakou2004@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:25:47 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Dear friend,




>From Mr Gerald Kwakou.

Abidjan.

Cote D'Ivoire.



Dear Friend,

Please, kindly take your time to understand the content of this email. I wish to introduce you to a transaction that would be of immense benefit to both of us. I am writing to ask for your kind assistance to enable me execute a very lucrative and high profiting supply business.

I am very confident that 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 import-export firm as the Corporate Affairs Manager. Between the 17th - 19th of Feb., 2011 a seminar was held in Bouake, Cote d'ivoire of which I attended. While in the Seminar, I was opportuned to meet a man who is the President and CEO of his company.

This man is an accomplished and widely known millionaire farmer in this part of the region. He has cattle farms in different countries of West Africa. Above all, he is one of the greatest supplier of cattle, beef and other dairy 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 US$5,000.00 per carton, and that he mostly buys to the excess of 1000 cartons. He also informed me that he

wants me to find out if my organisation could source for him a cheaper supplier of this medicine, 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 this medicine somewhere cheaper in Europe for US$2,300.00 per carton. We moved our proposal to the farmer to supply him this vaccine 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 we make on each supply of which he agreed. But on the completion of the first and second supply, my boss reneged 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, I intercepted a recent letter/purchase order from the same buyer, requesting my boss to supply him with 1250 cartons of the same product as soon as possible. I seized the letter and personally contacted the man and informed him that I can introduce him direct to the producer

of the medicine who will supply his farm the product at US$4,200.00 if he will pay in advance. He was very pleased and is right now waiting for me to link

him to the producer.

This is the reason why I am contacting you so that you can contact this man as the producer/supplier of this vaccine.

We will buy the medicine at US$2,300.00 from the producer in Europe and sell at $4,200.00 to this cattle farmer with him first paying 70% of his total order as mobilisation.I will be entitled to 30% of whatever profit we make after the deduction of all expenses.In the letter/purchase order he was sending to my boss, he stated that he needs 1250 cartons of the product urgently. So we have to moove fast to get the contract.



If you are interested and capable of handling this supply to this cattle farm, 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 the cattle farm here.

Kindly be notified that at no point in time should you let this cattle farmer to know the contact of our real source of this product in Europe so that they would'nt bypass us to deal directly with them.



I will very much appreciate if you can include your telephone number in your response, so that I can call you for more detailed discussion on our next step.

If you require further detail explanation of this transaction, do let me know.



Anticipating to hear from you soonest.



Sincerely Yours

Gerald Kwakou.

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