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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: "Dr.Ikechukwu Nze" <info@drnze.com>
Reply-To: dr_ikechukwu.nze@w.cn
Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 15:42:16 -0000
Subject: REPLY BACK URGENTLY!


FROM THE DESK OF
Dr .Ikechukwu Nze
N N P C.
E-mail:dr_ikechukwu.nze@w.cn


Dear Sir,

MUTUAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP-STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.

I am Dr.Ikechukwu Nze,the chief accountant of The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)
and I head a five man tender board in charge of contract award and payment approvals.I came to
know of you in my search for a reliable person to handle a very confidential transaction which
involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account.

There were series of contracts executed by a consort ion of multinationals in the oil industry in
favor of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) among which were for the following:

1. The expansion of the pipelines network within for a crude down stream products distribution and
subsequent evacuation which cost $8bUSD(8 Billion United States Dollars).

2. Contract for the turn around maintenance (TAM) of the various refineries in the country $115
million United States Dollars. The construction of storage tanks for petroleum products (depots)
$190 Million United States Dollars.

The original value of these contracts were deliberately over invoiced in the sum $69mUSD (sixty
nine Million United States Dollars Only) which has now been approved and is now ready to be
transferred, being that the companies that actually executed these contracts had been fully paid
when the projects were officially commissioned.

It does not matter whether your company's did the contract or not, the assumption is that your
company won the major contract and sub-contracted it out to other companies. Consequently, my
colleagues and I are willing to transfer the total amount to your account for subsequent
disbursement, since we as civil servants are prohibited by the code of conduct bureau (civil
service laws) from opening and or operating foreign accounts in our names. Needless to say, the
trust imposed on you at this junction is enormous.

In return, we have agreed to offer you 20% of the transferred sum, while 5% shall be set aside for
incidental expenses (internal and external) between the parties in the course of the transaction,
and the remaining 75% is for us,the Nigerian officials.

Modalities have been worked out at the highest level of the ministry of finance and the central
bank of Nigeria for the immediate transfer of the fund within 14 working days subject to your
satisfaction of the above stated terms.

Our assurance is that your role is risk free,I accord this transaction the legality it deserves
and for mutual security of the fund,the whole approval procedures will be officially and legally
processed with the name of any company you may nominate as the bonafide beneficiary of the above
mentioned amount.

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 risk
free.

Once more, I want you to understand that having put in over 19 years in the civil service of my
country, I am very careful to have my image and career deemed.

Please contact me immediately through E-mail whether you are interested in this deal or not, if
you are not, it will enable us scout for another foreign partner to carry out this deal but where
you are interested send the required documents.

Send by Email for security reasons.

Thanks as I await in anticipation for your fullest co-operation.

Very truly yours,
Dr.Ikechukwu Nze
PLEASE NOTE:Send your reply to my confidential email address(dr_ikechukwu.nze@w.cn)
YOUR CONFIDENTIAL CORRESPONDENT



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