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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: Mr. Frank <admin@osoulreal.com>
Reply-To: februse@virgilio.it
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 07:13:37 +0300
Subject: Contract Supply Transaction..

Attn: Dear Sir/Madam,

Good day and greetings to you, I am Mr. Frank i work at a private company, i am contacting you to request your collaboration to enable us executes a very lucrative and highly profitable contract business to supply animal vaccine product, this contract supply shall profit us enormously, it require we furnish yearly huge quantity of animal vaccine to a wealthy client who has a very large agricultural business also in cattle farming here in this part, now i want you to understand that 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 deposit to us for his demand on agreeable terms. I did inform the Farmer that this is the company rules. Now we can comfortable execute this business with the deposit we shall receive from the client. So please if you are interested, kindly get back to me for more detail, I shall be expecting your quick reply. Thank you.

Mr. Frank.


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