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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: "Mrs. Samantha Abuchi" <samanthaabuchi@gmail.com>
Reply-To: "Mrs. Samantha Abuchi" <samanthaabuchi@outlook.com>
Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 02:14:59 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Dear Sir


Dear Sir,

My former boss is in business
with a business Mogul  in
West Africa.  His name is Alhaji Kumar Busanga, the president of
Busanga Agro Allied Groups. He owns the biggest cattle, Camels, Sheep
and Goats farms in West Africa. His Cocoa,Coffee, Rice and Palm tree
plantations are the biggest here in Cote d`Ivoire and in West African
countries.

The company where I work before made a very big
financial breakthrough when we encounter Alhaji Kumar Busanga 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 €4,800 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 €2,000 per carton. We moved a proposal to Alhaji Kumar
Busanga, to supply him at €4,500 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.
My former boss supplies this Business magnet vaccine for his livestock
at the price of €4, 500.00 per carton, and sometimes supply up to 2000
or 3000 cartons.

Now due to what my boss did to me, I have
called the Busanga 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 €4,000 per carton. The President of the Busanga 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 the Medicine. But they
insist that they will pay 80% up front and will pay the balance of 20%
on receiving AWB of the total goods.

Briefly, I am contacting
you because I have explained my plight to Alhaji Kumar Busanga and he
has stopped further dealings with my boss. I received a letter from them
requesting for two thousand cartons of this essential vaccine.

The reason why 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 €2000.00 per carton in Europe. I will need
you to contact Alhaji Kumar Busanga and inform him that you are the
direct supplier of the vaccine
and that you will sell to him at the price of €4,000 per carton. He will not
hesitate to start negotiating with you to carry out the supply. If you are
interested to be my partner in this transaction, please reply immediately for
more details on how to execute this lucrative deal.

Yours sincerely,
Mrs. Samantha Abuchi

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