joewein.net   joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet
Try our spam filter!
Free trial for 30 days
  jwSpamSpy

Home
About Us
Spam
419/Nigeria
Fraud
Contact

"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.

Click here to report a problem with this page.

 

 

Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "BASMEX (CAM) Ltd." <focadeximports@gmail.com>
Reply-To: basmex.bizsolution@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 13:12:00 +0200
Subject: Buying Inquiry: We want to buy your company's products; do you wish
to sell to buyers in Africa?

Dear Sir/Madam,

Greetings! 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 firm and our activities. Please be
so kind to send us your response or if any questions by e-mail address
basmex.bizsolution@gmail.com or call us on telephone number at
+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. BASMEX (CAM) Ltd. is a
Cameroonian based business consultancy firm. BASMEX (CAM) 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 the moment we are in talk with a client who wants to buy your
products for use in the execution of a project and in fact they gave
us a mandate to talk with your firm to see if you have interest to
sell your products in Africa region, do you sell to buyers in Africa?
If your answer is YES, we would kindly like to cooperate with you and
your firm 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 buy 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 have to pay us Commission at a rate of 2% of 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 clients want 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 firm, 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. Fabrice Loé/ Import manager

*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*
BASMEX (CAM) Ltd.
Import Export Consulting Services

ADD: Quartier Ngodi, B.P. 40739,
(Douala), Littoral Province,
Cameroon,
Tel: +237.651.021.795
Fax: +237 334 708 035
E-mail: basmex.bizsolution@gmail.com
*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*

Anti-fraud resources: