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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: "DR,DAVIDSON J. HOSTON" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <drdavidson.hoston@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 00:27:12 +0530
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL

Dear Sir/Madam Compliment of the day, I got your contact from Indian business Yellow Page business directory and I decided to contact you for a business proposal with my company. My company ( Novas Pharmaceutical Inc Company UK-London) is into manufacturing of pharmaceutical materials in United Kingdom.There are some pharmaceutical raw materials which I usually purchase on behalf of my company from India for the past 3yrs. Presently, I have been promoted to the post of General Manager (Admin.) hence my company can no longer send me to India to buy the materials because of my new position as GM(Admin).The director of my company has asked me for the contact of the supplier in India, which i am not yet give it to him. I need a reliable businessman whom I will present to my company as the supplier in India to enable the management contact him to confirm availability of materials and issue him an Official Purchase Order, to source the materials for my company in India. I do not want my company to have a direct contact with the local farmer that is based in India so that they will not know about the actual price of the Novas pharmaceutical Inc,Company,raw material. In my last transaction I bought the raw material from the local dealer in India at the rate of 95,000 Rupees per packet of 100 gram and my company paid $4000. Rupees per 100 gram packet,and my company use to purchase a minimum of 100 packet in every transaction depending on the availability of the material in India. If you have the capacity and interest to handle the business please contact me immediately so that I can give you the contact details of the Local dealer in India to enable you confirm the new price and the availability of the material before my company will contact you for the business. The business is risk free and the profit margin is very high, also this transaction will not disturb you from doing your normal job and we will share the profit between us after every successful transaction. Kindly contact me for more details through this email id: (drdavidson.hoston@yahoo.co.uk) Thanks & Regards, Dr, Davidson J.Hoston

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