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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: "Alex Koloko" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ALKOLOKO225@mail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 16:57:59 +0800
Subject: Product supply contract.

Greetings,
Please receive my greetings and wishes for good health, personal and professional
accomplishments.

I am writing to ask for your kind assistance to enable me execute a very lucrative
and high profiting supply business.
I am very confident that with trust and understanding, we will execute this business to
our mutual benefit and believe that you will not let down the trust and confidence I
am willing to repose in you.

I work for an Agricultural firm as the product sourcing Manager.
Between the 17th - 19th of Feb., 2014 a seminar was held in Bouake, Cote d'Ivoire of which I attended.
While in the Seminar, I was opportuned to meet one Alhadji who introduced himself to me as the president and CEO of his company. This Alhaji is an accomplished and well known millionaire farmer in this region.
Apart from his farms here in Abidjan, he has cattle farms in MALI, SENEGAL, GUINEA, BURKINA FASO and CHAD.
Above all, he is one of the greatest suppliers of cattle, beef and other dairy products in this part of the West Coast. On knowing my profession, he took me into confidence by informing me about the purchase of a particular but very rare medicine for his cattle. He informed me about the huge amount of money he spends purchasing a particular cattle medicine. Precisely, he pays US$2,000 per carton. He asked if my organization can source for a cheaper supplier for him.

Back in my office, I discussed this proposal with my boss and he decided to handle the supply by himself. We carried out a market research and discovered that we could purchase this medicine cheaper somewhere in Europe for US$575.00 per carton. We moved a proposal to the Alhaji to supply him with this vaccine at US$1,500.00 per carton which he accepted.My company made a very big financial breakthrough when we started supplying this vaccine to this wealthy farmer. As these supplies progressed my boss made huge profit from the contract.I requested for an increase in my salary and my commission but my boss was so upset at my request that he sacked me without benefits after ten years of dedicated service thereby reneged on our agreement.

I have since accepted it as one of life experiences. However as fate may have it, I went to Alhaji i and informed him that I have a foreign contact that will be willing to supply him this product at US$1,250.
per carton. He then told me he is about to place an order for 2000 cartons of this product following a suspected outbreak of disease in his farms. I assured him that my foreign contact will be in the position to manufacture and supply him with this vaccine at a cheaper rate of US$1,250 per carton. In fact, I told him that my former boss usually buys the medicine from my foreign contact and sells to him at a higher price.

CONSEQUENTLY,I INFORMED HIM THAT HE WILL HAVE TO PAY CASH IN ADVANCE BEFORE MY FOREIGN CONTACT WILL SUPPLY THIS VACCINE TO HIM.

Right now, he has stopped all communications with my boss. I therefore wish to present you as my foreign contact so that you can handle the supplies to the Alhaji. If you can handle the contract, kindly contact me immediately for details and negotiations on what is going to be my commission. We will get the medicine from the producers at US$575 and supply the Alhaji at US$1250 per carton of 12 bottles(500ml).

Kindly be notified that at no point in time should you let Alhaji know the contacts of our real source of this product in Europe so that they wouldn't bypass us to deal directly with them.

Anticipating your response at the earliest.
Send your response to: ALKOLOKO225@mail.com

Sincerely Yours,
Alex

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