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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: PRIVATE INFO <privateinfor1@gmail.com>
Reply-To: PRIVATE INFO <aching_002@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:51:46 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Please don't Delete this good investment...


Hi, Dear Beloved One,
Peace be with you.
My name is Reverend Pastor Mark Eric, My former boss is in business with one of the biggest business Mogul in West Africa. by name Alhaji Bandaman
Ekanza, the president of Bandaman Agro Allied Groups. The owner of the biggest animail farms in West Africa. His  plantations are the biggest and his vegetable oil plants are located in the 12 West African countries.

Our company made a very big financial breakthrough when we made
contact with Alhaji Bandaman Ekanza and began to supply Animal medicines to his farms. He had informed us about the huge amount of money he spends on the purchase of a particular but very important Animal medicine. Precisely, he buys 5,800 Dollars per
carton. He asked if our organization can source for a cheaper supplier.

We did market research and discovered that we can buy the medicine in Europe for 3,000
Dollars per carton. We moved a proposal to Alhaji Bandaman Ekanza, to supply him at 5,500 Dollars per carton which they accepted. As the supplies progressed and my boss was doing fine, I requested my boss to give me my entitlement as he promised earlier.  He was so upset that he sacked me without benefits after a long time of dedicated work for him. Now my boss supplies this Business magnet an essential vaccine for his livestock at the price of 5, 500.00 Dollars per carton, and sometimes supply up to 3000 or 4000 cartons.

Now due to what my boss did to me, I have called the Bandaman Group and informed them that I will link them directly to the supplier of the vaccine from where my boss buy at the rate of 5,000 Dollars per carton. Briefly, I am contacting you because I have explained my plight to Alhaji Bandaman Ekanza and he has stopped further dealings with my boss. Now I received a letter from the Bandaman Group requesting for two thousand
cartons of this essential vaccine.

The President of the Bandaman Group invited me to his Presence and I confirmed my word to him, and he promised me in confidence to deal only with me and my foreign supplier if we actually have the medicine. I told him that my foreign contact will supply them the best quality of the medicine at the price indicated but must receive 100% advance payment before he supply to them of which they have accepted.

I contacted you for this deal now is that, I have the contacts of the company where my former Boss uses to buy this vaccine in Europe. The Price of the vaccine is 3000.00 Dollars per carton in Europe. I will need you to contact Alhaji Bandaman Ekanza and inform him that you are the direct supplier of the vaccine and that you will sell to him at the price of 5,000 Dollars per carton. He will not hesitate to start negotiating with you to carry out the supply. If your organization is interested to be my
partner in this transaction, please contact me immediately for more details so that we can discuss on how to execute this lucrative deal.
Yours sincerely,
Reverend Pastor Mark Eric.

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