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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. Frank" <admin@wealthwisepartners.com>
Reply-To: februse@virgilio.it
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 17:25:08 +0200
Subject: Good supply contract.

Hello,

How are you? Hope you alright. I am contacting you to request your collaboration in executing a very lucrative and highly profitable contract supply of animal medicine product, this contract supply will profit us enormously, it require we furnish regularly huge quantity of animal vaccine to a wealthy farmer. This farmer happen to be a client of mine, they have a very large agricultural business and cattle farming here in this part, now i want you to understand that we can purchase this medicine product from a laboratory company at a lower price and selling at a 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 farmer is in a position to make a deposit to us for his demand on agreeable terms. However, i did inform the Farmer that this is the company's terms of sales. 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.

I will provide you full details once I hear from you. Thank you.

With best regards.

Mr. Frank.

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