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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. Ali Mohammed." <kalpashchikovs@enginet.ru>
Reply-To: drali.mohammed2016@yandex.com
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 00:02:27 +0600
Subject: Kind Attn: Sir,

Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)
LAGOS ANNEX OFFICE
VICTORIA ISLAND,LAGOS-NIGERIA.

Kind Attn: Sir,

May I crave your indulgence to open this business discussion by a formal
letter of this sort. It is pertinent that a business of this magnitude
should have commenced properly with a formal meeting of you and us to
enable us know ourselves, have a fore knowledge of the nature of the
business, discuss and acquaint ourselves with the responsibilities and
functions of parties concerned, and appropriate shares accordingly.
However, for time factor, confidentiality and personality of people
involved here in Nigeria, we choose this approach for the remittance of
this Forty Five Million U.S. Dollars (US$45M). Please bear with us for
making the initial contact through e-mail. But my partners are insisting
for a meeting in order not to fall into a wrong hand again.

I am Dr Ali Mohammed, we are members of the special committee for Budget
and Planning of the Ministry Petroleum. This committee is principally
concerned with contract appraisal and the approval of the contracts in
order of priorities as regards capital projects of the immediate past
administration of President Good-luck Jonathan of Nigeria. With our
positions, we have successfully secured for ourselves this sum of Forty
Five Million U.S. Dollars (US$45M). This amount was accumulated through
undeclared windfall sales of crude oil few years ago.

Hence together with two of our top officials at the Nigeria National
Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), we plan to transfer this amount of money
into a secure overseas account by awarding a sort of contract from the
NNPC. To this effect I have been given the mandate by my colleagues to
contact you and ask for your assistance. What we need from you is to
provide a nice account in which the funds will be transferred into. My
colleagues and I have agreed to compensate you or the owner of the account
used for this transaction with 30% of the total amount remitted. We shall
have 65% and the remaining 5% reserved for taxes and other miscellaneous
expenses in your country.

It may interest you to know that last year a similar transaction was
carried out with one Mr. Abou Abdallah, the President of Abdallah Group
International Trading Corporation of the following address: 107, Rue
Nicolas Mohammed Sursock, Ramletbaida, Beirut, Lebanon. After the
agreement between both partners in which he was to take 20% of the money
while the remaining 80% for us. With all the required documents signed,
the money was duly transferred into his account only to be disappointed on
our arrival in Beirut-Lebanon, and we were reliably informed that Mr. Abou
Abdallah was no longer on that address while his telephone and telex
numbers have been reallocated to somebody else. That was how we lost US$25
Million to Mr. Abou Abdallah of Beirut Lebanon.

This time around we need a more reliable and trustworthy person or a
reputable company to do business with hence this letter to you. So if you
can prove yourself to be trusted and interested in this deal then we are
prepared to do business with you. What we want from you is the assurance
that you will let us have our share of this amount (US$45M) if transferred
into your account. If this proposal is okay by you, then reply through my
email urgently so that we can set the ball rolling and negotiate the
modalities involved. Kindly, treat as very important and strictly
confidential, I honestly assure you that this transaction is 100%
risk-free. I look forward to your response and expected co-operation and
God bless you.

Best Regards,
Dr. Ali Mohammed.


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