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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: "Dick Pruugi" <dickpruugl@mujmail.cz>
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:32:04 +0100
Subject: Hello Partnership.


From: Mr. Dick Pruugi,

Dearest,

I write to solicite your  assistance and support to enable me execute a  very lucrative and high  profiting business transaction.I am very sure  that with trust and  understanding,we can be able to execute this  busines to our mutual  benefit and believe that you will not let down  the trust I am willing to  repose in you.

I work for an Ivorien based public international  firm (a MIC), I work  as the corporate affairs manager. Between the 17th  -19th of may, 2010 a  business seminar was held in BOUAKE Cote Divoire of  which I attended.  While in the Seminar, I was opportuned to meet Alhaji  M K AL-MUSTAPHA  ,the President of AL-MUSTAPHA FARMS ETS. Alhaji  AL-MUSTAPHA is an  accomplished and widely known and recognised  millionaire farmer in this  part of the region. He has farms in different  countries. Above all, he  is one of the greatest supplier of cattle,beef  and other diary  products in this part of the coast. On getting to know  my proffesion,  Alhaji AL-MUSTAPHA took me into confidence by informing  me about the  purchase of a particular but very important medicine for  his cattle. He  informed me that he buys this product at $5,000.00 USD  per carton, and  that he mostly buys to the excess of 850 cartons. He  informed me that  he would like me to
find out if my organisation could  source for him a  cheaper supplier considering the recent trend of falls  in the general  price of beef in the world market which is affecting his  business.

Back in my office, I discussed this proposal with my  boss and he  decided to handle the supply by himself. We carried out a  market  research and discovered that we could purchase these medicine  somewhere  cheaper in EUROPE for $2,200.00 USD per carton . We moved a  proposal  to AL-MUSTAPHA FARMS to make the supply to them at $4,800.00  USD per  carton of which he accepted.

Owing to my role in the  transaction, I had an agreement with my  director to be receiving 15% of  whatever gain is made on each supply of  which he agreed. But on the  completion of the suply and the receipt of  the payment,my boss renegated  on our agreement and refused to give me  my share of the profit. Since  then our relationship has been at its  lowest ebb. I have since accepted  it as one of life experiences.

However, as God would have it,  recently, I ran into Alhaji M K  AL-MUSTAPHA and he informed me that he  would want us to urgently supply  him with 1,250 cartons of the same  product before the end of April, 2011. I used the oppurtunity to inform  Alhaji that I can introduce him  to the main producer of this vaccine who  can supply him the product at  $4,400.00 USD if he will pay in advance  as he usually does. He was very  pleased and has assured me that he is  not going to contact my boss  again for this vaccine.

He is now  waiting for me to link him to the producer of the vaccine. We  will buy  the medicine at$2,200.00 USD from EUROPE and sell at  $4,400.00 USD TO  Alhaji M K AL- MUSTAPHA,with him making a down payment  of 50% of our  quoted price first.

If you are interested and capable of handling  this supplies on my  behalf,kindly get back to me urgently through my  e-mail,so that we can  agree on the terms and profit sharing, after which  I can then furnish  you with the contacts of both our source in EUROPE  and that of Alhaji M  K AL-MUSTAPHA .

Kindly be notified that at  no point in time should you let ALHAJI M K  AL-MUSTAPHA know that you are  not the producer of the medicine and we  should never allow him to know  the contact of our real source in EUROPE  so that he would'nt by pass us  to deal directly with them.

Thanks for your cooperation.

Yours sincerely,

Mr. Dick Pruugi

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