419 scam: "Mr. John Wilson" <comjohn.wilson@outlook.com> Hello Dear

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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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This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. John Wilson" <comjohn.wilson@outlook.com>
Reply-To: "Mr. John Wilson" <mc6257111@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 04:25:07 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Hello Dear

Hello Dear,

I wish to
introduce you to a very lucrative business.I worked as a product
sourcing manager with ("a-MIC"),an export company here in Cote d'Ivoire.

In
a business seminar I attended sometime ago in 2015, I met one
Alhaji,who is the the president & CEO of a big cattle and dairy farm
here in my country. Alhaji informed me that he needed a particular
vaccine which he usually buys at USD2,000 per carton and he buys up
wards of 3000 cartons every three months. On getting back to my office, I
discussed this with my boss.After some market research,we got the
product from Europe for USD575.00 and we supplied to Alhaji at USD1,500
per carton. My boss has supplied this vaccine to Alhaji for morethan
four times now,making a very huge profit.

My problem now is that
my boss has vehemently refused to pay me my share of the profit as we
discussed. As a reuslt of this,I decided to arrange with Alhaji to link
him to the real producers of the vaccine who will give him the vaccine
at a cheaper rate. After my discussion with Alhaji,he agreed to buy the
vaccine at the rate of USD1,250 per carton of 12 bottles.If you are
interested and capable of executing this supplies on my behalf, kindly
get back to me urgently.

Thanks.
MR JOHN WILSON

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