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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: Mr Paul Joseph <pj949699@gmail.com>
Reply-To: paul.joseph11@outlook.com
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 00:58:08 +0100
Subject: Greetings,

Greetings,

Please receive my greetings and wishes for good health, personal and
professional accomplishments. Believing you are doing well and staying
safe.I am writing to ask for your kind assistance to enable me to execute a
very lucrative and high profiting supply business with you. It is with
great pleasure to share this business opportunity with you. Please No
Obligation.I am very confident with trust and understanding, we will
execute this business to our mutual benefit and believe that you will not
let down the trust and confidence I am willing to repose in you.I work for
an Agricultural firm as the Corporate Affairs Manager. Between the
17th-19th of Sept. 2020 an Agricultural seminar was held in Bouake, Cote
D'ivoire of which I attended. While in the Seminar, I was opportune to meet
a man who is the CEO/MD of his company.

He is an accomplished, widely known and recognized millionaire farmer in
this part of the region. He has Farms in different countries of West
Africa. But above all, he is one of the greatest suppliers of cattle, beef
and other dairy products in this part of the West Coast.On knowing my
profession, he took me into confidence by informing me about the purchase
of a particular but very rare 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 1500 cartons. He informed me that he was only asking me to
find out if my organization could source for him a cheaper supplier
considering the recent trend of rising in the general price of beef in the
world market.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 medicines somewhere
cheaper in Europe for $2,700.00 USD per carton. We moved a proposal to
client to make the supply to them at $4,800.00 USD per carton of which he
accepted. We sent to the Alhaji a sample of this vaccine ordered directly
from the manufacturing company. Owing to my role in the transaction, I had
an agreement with my Boss to be receiving 35% of whatever gain is made on
each supply of which he agreed. But on the completion of the supply and the
receipt of the payment,my boss reneged 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 fate would have it, recently, I intercepted a letter of request
from client asking my boss to supply him with 2500 cartons of the same
product as soon as possible. I seized the letter, and this letter will
never get to my boss. I personally contacted farmer and informed him that I
can introduce him to the producer who is ready to supply him the product at
$4,400.00 USD if he will pay in advance as he usually does. He was very
pleased and is right now waiting to be contacted by my partner. You are not
expected to use your personal money to place an order for the 1500
cartons.We will buy the medicine at $2,700.00 USD from Europe and sell at
$4,400.00 USD to the client with them first paying 50% of our quoted price
in advance. I will be entitled to 40% of whatever profit we make after the
deduction of all expenses.If you are interested and capable of handling
this supply with me, kindly get back to me, so that I can furnish you with
the contacts of both our source in Europe and that of the client. Endeavor
to include your direct telephone/mobile number and I will call you.Be
notified that at no point in time should you let the buyer 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 wouldn't boycott us to
deal directly with them.


Looking forward to your response for further discussion & long-term
business relationship. If you have any questions about the business, don't
hesitate to ask.

Thank you for accepting this opportunity to work with me, and may you find
grace at every turn.

Best regards,

Mr Paul Joseph

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