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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: "Christopher Campbell (Mr.)" <spywavees@gmail.com>
Reply-To: christophecambell@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 18:31:23 +0800
Subject: ATTN: Hello From Chris;

Hello,

It may surprise you receiving this letter from me, since there was no previous correspondence between us but there’s an urgent need for my contacting you, but before I forge ahead with our discussion, let me introduce myself. My name is Mr. maxcus Hendres; I'm from London, UK. I am a marketing consultant/supplier with some of the animal Farms here in England. I'm specifically into buying and supplying of Vaccines/Equine Injection and Immunology products. I normally travel to Malaysia/China where I purchase this product and supply to our company here in UK.

This product is a Vaccine medicine used for treating animals, such as Horses, Cattle, Cows, Dogs and etc. There has been a high level of demand in our company for the product. The board of directors normally sends me to Malaysia to purchase the Vaccine. The medicine is very cheap in Asia especially Malaysia compared to U.S and Europe, in U.S. and Europe, per carton of the product cost $5,000 to $6,500 while in Indonesia I only buy it for $2,600. (All prices are quoted in US Dollars).

I was supposed to go to indonesia again this month, but couldn’t make it due to my health condition. I was recently involved in an auto crash and presently hospitalized. Now the board of Directors has appointed a new staff as the purchasing manager to take over the deal from me and continue the purchase of the product with INDONESIAN Company. They have asked me to give them the contacts of the supplier, but I don't want to disclose to our company the direct contacts of the supplier, because I don't want them to find out the actual cost of the product. I normally purchase the products from the indonesia supplier at the rate of $2600 per carton, while I supply to our company at the rate of $5000 per carton.

I'm contacting you because I am looking for a dependable individual that I can trust, someone who will be willing and honest enough to carry out this transaction with diligence to the best of his/her ability and if you wish you could be that person, you kindly let me know.

Our company normally place order from a minimum of 50 to 100 cartons to a maximum of 200 cartons in every purchase and it's every one or two months supply depending on the demand here in UK.

I humbly wait for your response asap.

Best wishes,

Christopher campbell.
Purchasing Manager.




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