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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.James Obi"<admin@perfect.co.id>
Reply-To: <jamesobi@lajt.hu>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:07:54 -0800
Subject: Partnership Request

Attention:President/CEO,
I know this email will reach you as a surprise, but need not to worry as we are using the only secured and
confidential medium available to seek for foreign assistance/partnership in a business transaction which is of
mutual benefit.

I am a member of the Federal Government of Nigeria Contract Award and Monitoring Committee in the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Sometime ago, a contract was awarded to a foreign firm in NNPC by my
Committee. This contract was over invoiced to the tune of US$21.5M. U. S.Dollars. This was done deliberately.
The over-invoicing was a deal by my committee to benefit from the project. We now want to transfer this money
which is in a suspense Account with NNPC into any Overseas Account which we expect you to provide for us.

SHARE: -
For providing the account where we shall remit the money into, you will beentitled to 30% of the money,60% will be
for me and my partners while 10% has been mapped out from the total sum to cover any expenses that may be
incurred by us during the course of this transfer,both locally and international expenses.

It does not matter whether or not your company does contract projects of this nature described here. The assumption
is that your company won the major contract and subcontracted it out to other companies. More often than
not, big trading companies or firms of unrelated fields win major contracts and subcontracts to more specialized firms
for execution of such contracts.

We have strong reliable connections and contacts at the Central Bank of Nigeria, as well as the Federal Ministry
of Finance and we have no doubt that all the money will be released and transferred if we get the necessary foreign
partner to assist us in this deal. Therefore, when the business is successfully concluded we shall through our same
connections withdraw all documents used from all the concerned Government Ministries for 100% security.

We are ordinary civil servants and we will not want to miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to get rich. We want this
money to be transferred to the overseas Accounts for us as soon as possible.

Please contact me immediately through my email address whether or not you are interested in this deal. If you are
not, it will enable me scout for another foreign partner to carry out this deal. But where you are interested, contact me
through my private email address below, as time is of the essence in this business. I wait in anticipation of your fullest
co-operation.

Best Regard,

Mr.James Obi

Email:jamesobi@lajt.hu

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