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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: "Dr. Graham Moore" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dr.grahammoore@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 04:17:23 -0800
Subject: PRODUCT SUPPLYING PARTNERSHIP

Hi Sorry for contacting you in this manner,
 
My name is Dr. Graham Moore, from Furagene Biopharmaceuticals Ltd United Kingdom, I have an important
product supplying business i intend to discuss with you that will benefit me and you, i am writing from
Aberdeen AB24 5RL, UK, my reason of contacting you is about a product that our company use to buy from
your country, its a herbal extract seeds called (Basil Bio Organic Seed) its used for producing several
pharmaceutical products for Anti-viral decease drugs.
 
Meanwhile our company is about to place another purchase order now and as the purchase manager the
company has giving me order to contact the supplier and since few weeks now i have been trying to reach
him but to no avail and due to the commission (%) i use to get from the business each time the agent supply
us, i do not want to connect the local farmer direct to our company less i lose my commission.
 
 
Therefore my intention of contacting you now is to present you as the supplier so that my company will buy
this product through you therefore you will stand in gap to bridge the link connection between the local
farmer and our company then the profit you make from this supply shall be sheared among us.
 
I await your urgent response to my private e-mail :  dr.grahammoore@gmail.com
 
Regards.
Dr. Graham Moore (Dir. R&D)
Furagene Biopharmaceuticals Ltd.
 
 

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