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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: Mrs Anna owusu <mrsannaowusu@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2023 13:15:11 +0000
Subject: Product Our Company Need

Hello Sir,
My name is Mrs Anna owusu,I work for a zoological/Veterinary services
company here in Ghana, our company is in need of a product (Apokona roots
product) raw material, our company ran out of stock of this product which
is a raw material required to mix some vaccines to obtain end product (feed
supplement) to supply to the Government who awarded the contract to our
company to deliver and distribute the feed supplement to other
states,regions and districts in the country for Agriculture purposes.

Following some issues between our company and the purchasing manager on
purchase of some other products, for obvious reasons he decided to quit and
resigned his job and went further to established a separate company of his
own with the profits he made out of the purchase of this product to our the
company, he was then in full charge of the department of all procurement of
materials and products for the company.

That former purchasing manager was the head of my department in the company
and my direct boss before he quit his job as the company purchasing
manager,he made the company to believe that the product is ordered at the
rate of$32,860 USD per Gallon, following his resignation, I was appointed
as the interim or temporary purchasing manager in charge of the same
department recently

I managed to discover that the same product is supplied to him by the
dealers at the rate of USD $18,500 per Gallon, which he delivers to our
company at the rate of $32,860 USD making a huge amount of profits for
himself. As a matter of fact, I do not wish to let anyone in our company
know about this because of my interest to make some profits with this
opportunity.

Listen, the deal here now is that I intend to present you as the supplier
so you will be a middleman between our company and the local based dealer
of the product if you're willing to cooperate and follow the procedures
accordingly, so that our company will not know the main-source of the
product or the dealer but to deal with you directly as the supplier.

Please if you're interested and ready to do this business as informed
kindly forward to me your full name,country of origin and contact cell
phone number to enable me to forward to you details and contact of the
local base dealer of the product to enable you to contact and negotiate to
purchase and supply the product, if you're able to convince our company
that you're the supplier and can supply the product, our company is ready
to make advance payment to you to supply the product at any quantity the
company may order, usually 500 gallons at the minimum.

Hence you can make use of the upfront or advance payment to mobilize and
order the total quantity of the product ordered from the local dealer to be
delivered to anyone our company will send to your country to engage the
transaction with you as the supplier (FOB) and balance payment will be made
to you at the point of delivery of the product there in your country.

However, the profit will be shared among the both of us at the close of the
deal, 70% for you and 30% for me, after deduction of any expenses you may
have incurred during the transaction processes.

This deal will be a long term business between you and our company if
you're able to convince and handle the transaction professionally as a
direct supplier and deliver successfully.

Feel free to ask any question of interest where you're not cleared, in
every successful partnership business, trust and respect among parties
involved is priority or key to the success.

I look forward to your positive response as soon as possible to proceed
with this deal as the company needs the Product urgently.
Also Kindly send me your Mob./WhatsApp number to enhance and facilitate
communication effectively to avoid delay.
Thanks and best regards
Mrs Anna owusu

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