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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: Maxtas Supply <wer@deercreekpta.org>
Reply-To: mtechline@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2017 01:39:32 -0500
Subject: Thank you and have a Happy New Year!



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 with you. It is with
great pleasure to share this business opportunity with you. Please No
Obligation.

I am very confident 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 Corporate Affairs Manager. Between the
17th -19th of Sept, 2015 an Agricultural seminar was held in Bouake, Cote
D'ivoire of which I attended. While in the Seminar, I was opportune to meet a
man who is the CEO/MD of his company. He is an accomplished, widely known and
recognized millionaire farmer in this part of the region. He has Farms in
different countries of West Africa. But above all, he is one of the greatest
supplier of cattle, beef and other diary 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
that he buys this product at $5,000.00 USD per carton, and that he mostly buys
to the excess of 1500 cartons. He informed me that he was only asking
me to find out if my organization could source for him a cheaper supplier
considering the recent trend of rising in the general price of beef in
the world market.

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 these medicine somewhere cheaper in Europe for
$2,700.00 USD per carton. We moved a proposal to client to make the supply to
them at $4,800.00 USD per carton of which he accepted. We sent to the Alhaji a
sample of this vaccine ordered directly from the manufacturing
company. Owing to my role in the transaction, I had an agreement with
my Boss to be receiving 35% of whatever gain is made on each supply of
which he agreed. But on the completion of the supply and the receipt of the
payment, my boss renegaded on our agreement and refused to give me my share of
the profit. Since then our relationship has been at its lowest ebb. I
have since
accepted it as one of life experiences.

However, as fate would have it, recently, I intercepted a letter of
request from client asking my boss to supply him with 2500 cartons of the same
product as soon as possible. I seized the letter and this letter will
never get to my boss. I personally contacted farmer and informed him
that I can introduce him to the producer who is ready to supply him
the product
at $4,400.00 USD if he will pay in advance as he usually does. He was
very pleased and is right now waiting to be contacted by my partner.
You are not
expected to use your personal money to place order for the 1500 cartons.

We will buy the medicine at $2,700.00 USD from Europe and sell at
$4,400.00 USD to the client with them first paying 50% of our quoted price in
advance. I will be entitled to 40% of whatever profit we make after the
deduction of all expenses.

If you are interested and capable of handling this supply with me, kindly get
back to me, so that I can furnish you with the contacts of both our source in
Europe and that of the client. Endeavor to include your direct
telephone/mobile number and i will call you.

Be notified that at no point in time should you let the buyer to know that you
are not the producer of the medicine and we should never allow him to know the
contact of our real source in Europe so that he wouldn't boycott us to deal
directly with them.

Looking forward to your response for further discussion & long term business
relationship. If you have any questions about the business, don't
hesitate to ask.

Thank you for accepting this opportunity to work with me, and may you
find grace at every turn.

Best regards,

Mr. Yao Aidara

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