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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "your urgent reply" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +447010042608 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- markandersonbuckler26@gmail.com (Gmail/GoogleMail; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "business proposer" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <markandersonbuckler26@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 19:58:09 +0530
Subject: Bristol Phamarceutical Company

Dear Friend,

Greetings! I have contacted you for this huge business opportunity
which will benefit our respective persons, this is typically business.
My name is Mr.Mark Buckler. I am the assistant production officer
in my company .Our company is into production of Pharmaceutical
Products and mainly Animal Vaccines in Ghana and North Africa and our
head office is in UK. There is an Herbal Roots that our company needs
urgently for the production of Animal Vaccines drugs.
Our company is in desperate search of this Herbal Roots for the
manufacturing of our animal drugs which i stated above and this Root
is only produced in India. Our company had a foreign procurement
officer who normally go to India to purchase the Herbal Roots from the
local Indian farmers and supply to my company at very high price, but
unfortunately our company lost the procurement officer as he died some
few months ago leaving no trace of the local Herbal Roots dealer
contact to my company.

My company is desperately in need of this Root urgently, my company
buys this Herbal Roots in large quantity because of our production
capacity and the company is willing to purchase about 50,000gm sachets
of this Root once it is found available to buy. The local Indian
dealers use to sell the Herbal to our late procurement officer at the
rate of $200 USD (RS 12,000 INR )for one sachet and my company director
pays our late purchasing officer $400 USD (RS 24,000 INR )per each
sachet, you can imagine how much the procurement officer was profiting.

TOP SECRET: I personally have the contact details of the India local
dealer where our procurement officer used to purchase the Herbal Roots
in India because he mistakenly misplaced his wallet in my office and i
found the dealers contact from one of the receipts which was issued to
him when he last went to purchase the Roots from the India farmers. As
an employee to this company, it is against the policy of the company
for me to get involved in such business and i really want to have my
own share from this business that is why i have contacted you.
If you are interested and capable to handle this business smoothly,
kindly reply my mail for more details. We discuss more on this matter
and then i forward to you the Indian local dealer contact details and
my company director contact detail and present you to my company and
director as the new person to immediately supply us the needed Roots.
Reply me with this email address (markandersonbuckler26@gmail.com)

Awaiting your urgent reply

Regards,
Mr,Mark Buckler
+447010042608

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