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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: "Gradi Srl" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dewustrapt@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 12:10:00 +0200
Subject: Fw:Purchase order

Dear sir,

we saw your company product on the internet and my company is interested to buy from your company,could you please quote us the best price of the samples item on link below for your fob and term of payment if by L/C or T/T.

Please Login to our samples page and reveiw the listed products and send us the PI to enable us make deposit payment for you to start up the production immediately.

View samples here:- http://www.cieldemer.com/samples.html

We have annual investment of Eight Million US dollars every year on import & export and we intend to increase our import limit as time goes on. We have demand for different products ranging from spare parts, furnitures, Sanitary wares,Tyres/inner tubes, Electronics, Machineries,chemicals,Textiles, Fruits and Vegetables and many more.

best regards
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Wojciech Niewiadomski

Dzial sprzedazy / Sales department


Gradi Srl-Trade
Marcinkowo 154
11-700 Mragowo
NIP / TAX ID: POLAND 742-108-26-11
REGON: 519489271

tel. +48 89 741 03 55
kom. +48 605 530 355

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