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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: "Mrs Ashley Coleman" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <frankanderson23401@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 04:59:25 -0800
Subject: Good Business Proposal


Good morning, My name is Mrs Ashley Coleman, a contractor Researcher at A Z Pharmaceutical Company here in United Kingdom. Actually, my company is presently in need of a particular raw material ( OILGAL SEED) for urgent manufacture of cancer treatment and for other cancer related medication, also use for production of animal vaccine.
but we can not connect or tell where about of our former supplier. We have been searching for a new supplier since last year but all effort had proven null.

So my primary objective is to present a business minded someone as the original vendor. For this reason, I am seeking to form a strategic partnerships with you to handle this business as the seller if you can invest your money to make the outright purchase of the required product from the original vendor and resell to our company at a higher rate so as to maintain the previous rate my company was purchasing from the old supplier with out allowing b oth parties to exchange contacts so as to protect our future transactions.

Regarding what will be my share, well, since you are the sponsor you will surely have a major percentage in profit sharing. After deduction of your total investment amount which shall include transportation etc, i will appreciate if net-profit would be shared between us in the ratio of 70% for you and 30% for me so that all interests be harmonized.

kindly contact me if you are interested to proceed,

Thank you.

Regards,

Mrs Ashley Coleman

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