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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: "Everax Trading Ltd." <alpha.frozenfood@gmail.com>
Reply-To: everaxltd@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 12:12:02 +0100
Subject: Import Inquiry - Would you be interested in selling your products in
African region?

Dear Sir/Madam,

I wish you all a nice day.

Let me first inform you about the recent reconstruction of our
website, within one month we will build a new version with updated
information and details about our company and our activities. Please
be so kind and send us your response or any questions by e-mail
address everaxltd@gmail.com or call us on telephone number +237 651
021 795.

I found your contact information on a website where you introduced
your esteemed company as one of the reliable suppliers from your
country and have a range of products that you exports. Now we are
getting in touch with you because we have the intention to establish
business relations with your company.

As this is our first communication, a brief introduction of our
company might be of interest to you. Everax Trading is a Cameroonian
based business consultancy firm. Everax Trading Ltd is born to offer
companies with the desire to expand to Cameroon the necessary support
using the best strategies and tools to achieve success in the
short-term.

We have a wide network of contacts among the main players of the
Cameroonian market; Public institutions, multinationals, local
companies and investment groups, informal market, etc.

Our objective is to become a strategic buyer for companies in Cameroon
and import all kind of products from all over the world.

At this moment we are into contact with a client who wants to buy your
products for use in carrying out a project, and actually they have
given us a mandate to speak with you in order to find out if you have
the interest to sell your products in Africa, would you be interested
in selling your products in African region? If your answer is YES,
we’ll be very glad to work with you to supply the wanted products to
our clients on a commission basis since our clients has said to be
interested in sellers from your country, i.e. we’ll introduce you to
the Buyer that wants to purchase your products, the Buyer will place
their order with you, you in return manufacture the goods and sell to
them directly, after you received 100% funding for their orders and
delivered the goods to them, you will need to pay us 2% commission
over ex-warehouse value for our services. Commission Payment will be
done after the total amount of invoice is settled in your account.

Note: we need sellers who could handle both Small and Large
Transaction Orders. Our client is ready to start purchasing the
products today. The payment terms are usually 7 days after the sign of
sales agreement by bank transfer, 100% wire T/T in advance before
manufacturing the goods.

If you are interested kindly reply with more information about your
company such as your brochures, price list and general presentation of
your company so that we can begin negotiations on how we can build a
good and lasting cooperation together with your company, please also
advice your conditions of purchasing for the first time clients so
that we can inform our client accordingly.

We sincerely expect your positive response to reach win-win
cooperation on long term.

Awaiting your soonest reply, we remain with kindest regards.
Thank you

Mr. Romeo Ekwalla/ Import manager

*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*
Everax Trading Ltd
B.P. 23079, Quartier Marché Congo,
(Douala), Littoral Province,
Cameroon,

Tel: +237 651 021 795
Fax: +237 334 708 68
E-mail: everaxltd@gmail.com
*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*

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