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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: "SETH" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dr.si@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 02:30:29 +0530
Subject: RE: THE SUPPLY FROM YOU

Attn: friend
I am a senior staff of a large veterinary company here in UK, and we also supply animal drugs to other companies here within and outside European continent like UK, German, Canada and South America etc. I seek your consent to uplift this business opportunity with you, which will benefit you and me. Companies are badly in need of the ANIMAL DRUGS which we normally purchase only from some of the Asia countries like Sri-Lanka, India, and many more, since the death of Mr. Rajiv Kumar our middle man in India.

Our company director is desperately in need of these animal drugs at all cost based on the higher demand of the products. Formally Mr. Rajiv Kumar buys the product from India main dealer and resells to our company, right now I am no more working under the company and this very drugs are very demanding in the market that is my reason of contacting you.

I’m hoping that you are a reliable person who is business minded and can assist me in supplying the product to the companies that are requesting for it. I don't want our director to have the contact of the original dealer in India, because this transaction would be a continuous one.
All I need from you is to be kind, honest, and trustworthy. Your reply is of great importance, all information needed is intact and all that matters now is your positive response. Kindly get back to me if you can execute this business reply me via email:

Sincerely,
Mr. Seth

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