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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: "Paul Smith" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <spaul5905@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 03:08:27 +0300
Subject: Ref. URGENT RESPONSE

Dear ,
 
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 and I desire a foreign partner to execute it with me. I and my colleagues over invoiced a contract payment valued US$15million. 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. However during the period we over invoiced US$15million addition to the total contract sum.
 
 
Meanwhile, most of the contractors have been paid and the remaining contractor’s payments are been processed for payment. With that, I and my colleagues have decided to include you among these remaining contractors to process the sum of the US$15Million in your company or in your name as beneficiary to access it for our mutualbenefit. So I am now contacting you to present you as the sub-contractor who has this amount of US$15million 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; the name of your company and bank details with address to enable me register it with our corporate 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.
 
If you are comfortable and agree to execute this business with me, I have to be assured of your confidentiality and trust towards  the conclusion of this deal. You will be given 30% of the total amount, 5% mapped out for re-fund of expenses incured by any of the parties,while I and my colleagues will have 65% once the money gets into your company account in your country.
 
 
Furthermore, with my vantage 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. I will detail you more on this once I get your response.
 
 
Kindly contact me on this my private telephone number:+234-8098036615 or my private e-mail: spaul5905@gmail.com
 
 
Thank you and hope to hear from you as soon as possible.
 
Regards
 
Paul Smith.
Chief Account Officer (N.N.P.C)
E-mail: spaul5905@gmail.com

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