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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: "NNPC CONTRACT" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrpetermorris01@e-mail.ua>
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:02:18 -0400
Subject: N.N.P.C CONTRACT

 
 
MR.PETER MORRIS.
+234-8029183001
E-mail: mrpetermorris01@e-mail.ua
 
Dear Sir,                                                                                                  
     
                                                                                             
Good day. I know this mail will come to you as a surprise but I need to contact you because of the urgency and confidentiality of this business transaction. I am Chief Account officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
 
I have a deal here in my office I need a foreign partner to execute with me. I and my colleague over invoiced a contract payment valued US$50million. We awarded contracts for the supply and maintenance of all the oil pipelines and oil drilling equipments for the nation oil wells to some foreign contractors valued US$103billion, which we over invoiced US$50million addition to the total contract sum.
 
Now as a matter of fact, most of the contractors have been paid and the remaining contractor’s payments are under process to be paid to them. With that, I and my colleague have decided to include you among these remaining contractors to process the sum of the US$50Million in your company or in your name to claim it for our mutual benefit. So i am now contacting you to present you as the sub-contractor who has this amount of US$50million to be paid for the supply of heavy oil drilling equipments used in recent overhauling of the refineries.
 
I will advice you furnish me with your personal information including your personal cell phone number and the name of your company with address to enable me register it with our cooperate affairs commission in charge of allied and companies registration as an indigenous company.
 
It is mandatory that any foreign company must  be registered in this country. Also with your acceptance to execute this business with me, I need to be sure of your confidentiality towards  the conclusion of this deal, you will be given 30% of the total amount, while I and my colleague will take 70% once the money gets into your company account  in your country. Also with my position here, I can officially arrange with you to be lifting 2 or 4million barrels of Crude Oil per month by getting a year or two years crude Oil allocation contract in your name and company name whether you are here or not. With this we can make more money from the oil lifting here in Nigeria. I will detail you more on this once I get your response.
 
Thank you and hope to hear from you as soon as possible. Send me your cell phone number to call you for more details.
Get back to me by my private email: mrpetermorris01@e-mail.ua
Best Regards
 
Mr. PETER MORRIS.
Chief Account Officer (N.N.P.C)
+234-8029183001

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