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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: "Justin" <jcoulibaly@bol.com.br>
Reply-To: jcoulibaly225@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 11:42:16 -0000
Subject: Business proposal,




From:Mr.Justin Coulibaly
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 cattle.

He informed me that he buys this product at US$2,000.00 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$525.00 per carton. We moved our proposal to the farmer to
supply him this vaccine at US$1,500.00 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, second and third 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 2000 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$1,250.00 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 I will present you to
this man as the producer or supplier of this vaccine.
We will buy the medicine at US$525.00 from the producer in Europe and sell
at $1,250.00 to this cattle farmer with him first paying 70% of his total
order as mobilization. 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 1500 cartons of the
product urgently. So we have to move 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 farmer 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 wouldn't 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.

Anticipating to hear from you soonest.

Sincerely Yours
Mr.Justin Coulibaly.

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