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

Fraud email example:

From: Mr.Martins <exports@adanipharma.com>
Reply-To: k.masakq@virgilio.it
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 06:09:04 -0700
Subject: Contract supply.1

Attn: Dear Sir/Madam,

Greetings to you. I hope this mail find you in good condition of health. Please i am requesting for your collaboration and partnership to enable us executes a very lucrative and highly profitable contract supply of animal medicine, this contract supply is a good business venture which will definitely profit you and i meaningfully, it require we supply huge quantity of this animal vaccine product to a wealthy client who has a very large cattle farms in most African part, we can purchase this product from a pharmaceutical company at a lower price and selling at a higher good price which shall leave us with considerable profit. As a matter of fact we shall be making twice the price of purchase. The interesting advantage is that the client is in a position to make a down payment for his order. I informed him that this is the supplying company rules if they are to deal directly with them. Now we can comfortable execute this business with the down payment we shall receive from the client. If you are interested, please get back to me for more information & details, I shall be expecting your response. Thanks.

Mr. Martins.


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