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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: Francis Tiebi <bichn7190@gmail.com>
Reply-To: francistiebi49@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 17:46:17 +0000
Subject: Dear Friend

Greetings,

Please receive my greetings and wishes for good health, personal and
professional accomplishments. 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 March, 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. Please Write me here (francistiebi49@gmail.com)

Best regards,
Mr. Francis Tiebi

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