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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: udenzeden3@tiscali.it
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:05:42 -0800
Subject: Requsting

NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION (NNPC)
WESTERN REGIONAL OFFICE, ANNEX,
FALOMO-IKOYI,
LAGOS, NIGERIA.

Dear Friend,

I am Dr.Udenze Den the Director of Contracts and Finance Allocations with
the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).I seek your confidence
and assistance in a businessrelationship for our both mutual benefits.

In 1998, a contract was awarded to a German Contractor for the Turn Around
Service Maintenance of our four major refineries here in Nigeria and was
grossly over-invoiced up to the tune of $296,000,000.00USD (Two Hundred
and
Ninety Six Million United States Dollars).The total contract sum was
$260,000,000.00USD (Two Hundred and Sixty Million United States Dollars)
but
as a result of the over-invoicing, it was raised up to $296,000,000.00USD
(Two Hundred and Ninety Six Million United States Dollars) and the
contractor has been fully paid i.e $260,000,000.00USD (Two Hundred and Sixty
Million United States Dollars).

We however seek your assistance and support to enable us transfer the
remaining sum of $36,000,000.00USD (Thirty Six Million United States
Dollars) into your bank account or any other reliable bank account in your
country for possible investments in Real Estate and other good ventures.

The modalities to effect this transfer has been worked out as we are going
to use our position here to place you as the contractor who the contract
was
awarded to and having accomplished the contract wish to apply for payments.

We shall scrap every detail of the former contractor and replace it with
yours to enable you apply for payments on our behalf as the
beneficiary.There are other documents to be obtained to support this
transfer in your favour while we are assuring you that there is no risk
involved in this transaction as all modalities will take the resemblance
of
a real contractor.

We have arranged to compensate you with 20% of the total funds, setting
aside 5% to cover all expenses that might be incurred by both of us to
facilitate the transfer into your nominated bank account.

All contract documents will be re-endorsed by you at the appropriate time
to
avoid any hitch while processing the transfer of the fund while we shall
be
entering into a Partnership Agreement to safe guard our both interest in
view of this transaction.

If this business proposal is okay to you, please kindly get back to me
through the above e-mail address to enable me enlighten you more on how
to
conclude this transaction.

It is expected that this transaction is going to be concluded in the next
21
bank working days given your fullest cooperation.

I await your immediate response to this for time is not on our side.

Best Regards,

Dr.Udenze



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