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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: "Dr. Robert Tim Ondrovic" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dr.roberttimondrovic@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 01:43:53 +0100
Subject: Requesting Indian Business Associate.

Good Day,

I need you to stand as direct supplier from India.

I got your email from a marketing company, so i decided to let you know about the business opportunity of supplying us raw material from India. I am contacting you regarding our company urgent need for raw Chemical material that are available in India recently. It is the major liquid material our company has been using for the production of animal injections and vaccines since 2005.

Our company always send me to purchase the raw material from India. Right now I have been promoted to the post of production manager and the company cannot send me to India again, our director has asked me for the contact of the local dealer in India to enable them send the new purchasing manager to India to purchase the product directly from the dealer in India.


This material can only be found in India and Fuji but cheaper in India. I want you to act as the dealer. I will present you to the company as the dealer in India where i was purchasing this product; You would now purchase the product from the dealer whom I used to buy from, and supply to our company with you as the direct dealer. After purchase from original seller, you would sell to our new purchasing manager at a higher price. The profit would be shared between you and I. This business is very lucrative and it is continuous.

You will be a Middleman between my company and the local vendor in India, so that my company(new purchasing manager)will not know the main-source of the material. This is just a kind of buying and selling business and all you will do is to buy 1 gallon or a litre of the Chemical as sample and keep it ready with you, so that you will show it to our Company new purchasing Manager as sample as soon as he arrive in India for the purchasing of the chemicals and be informed that our company use to buy large quantity of the chemicals and may required more than 500 gallons every month.

Meanwhile,If you are willing to co-operate with me,I will send to you our Company director's contact detail hence you will require to send him an offer and as soon as he indicate interest to buy, you will let him know the stock is ready and you are willing to supply as many as required at a reduced price per gallon. I will also forward you the contact detail of the dealer where you will obtain the material in India.Our company currently buying this product at the rate of twenty five Thousand dollars per One (1) gallon (five thousand dollars per litre). The dealer selling price in India is seven Thousand,five hundred dollars per gallon (one thousand,five hundred dollars per litre) meanwhile all profits accrued would be shared between you and I after deduction of all your expenses. This would be a long term business relationship between you and our company.


Your role must be played perfectly and the least I expect from you is betrayal. I don’t want my organization to know the real cost of the product for obvious reasons. Kindly revert me if you are interested; Let me know if you can handle this supply.

Awaiting your reply immediately you receive this mail.

With best wishes,

Dr. Robert Tim Ondrovic.

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