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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: phil_c02@terra.com.mx
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:35:31 -0800
Subject: FROM MR PHILLIP

From the Desk Of
MR PHILLIP CHUKWU.
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
email :{phil_chukwu02@zipmail.com.br}
Good day and greetings to you,

I guess this letter may come to you as a surprise since i had no previous
correspondence with you. I am MR PHILLIP CHUKWU(Group General Manager)of
the National Petroleum Investment Management Service (NAPIMS), which is
the upstream arm of NNPC and oversees federal investments in the energy
sector. Of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Please
carefully view and study this website(<http://www.pmcomm.com/opec1/nigeria4.htm>)

Terms of Reference.

My term of reference involves the financial management and disbursement
of the proceeds from petroleum products and also the award of contracts
to multinational companies.

My office is also saddled with the responsibility of screening, categorization
and prioritization of projects embarked upon by NNPC as well as feasibility
studies for selected projects and supervising the projects consultants involved.A
breakdown of the fiscal expenditure by this office as at the end of thefourth
fiscal quarter of 2004 indicates that the NNPC paid out a
whooping sum of US$5.7B(Five Billion, Seven Hundred Million, United States
Dollars)to successful contracts beneficiaries. The NNPC is now compiling
beneficiaries to be paid .It will interest you to know that the President
has endorsed the resolution passed by the Senate that all foreign contractors
owed by the federal government should be paid, we will now seize this good
opportunity to purport you as one of the beneficiaries to be paid.


The crux of this letter is that the finance/contract department of the NNPC
deliberately over-inflated the contract value of the various contracts awarded.
These contracts have been executed and payment of the actual contracts
amount made to the foreign contractors. In the course of the disbursements,
this department has been able to track down the sum of US$45M (Forty-Five

Million U.S Dollars) as the over-invoiced sum. This money is now lying and
floating in the NNPC domiciliary account with the Central Bank of Nigeria
(CBN). Which me and my colleagues now want to transfer out of the country
into a reliable foreign account for our personal use. Therefore it becomes

necessary to source for a foreign company/individual with the capability
to act as the original beneficiary of the contract, but if you cannot for
any reason handle this transaction i should be grateful if you can introduce
it to a reliable and trust worthy person in which in any case your interest
will
be properly taken care of.

Meanwhile, my colleagues and i have decided to share the money in the following
ratio: 70% for my colleagues and i, then 25% for you the account owner and
5% for all! local and international expenses that may arise in the course
of this transaction. Further details about this transaction will be
discussed in the subsequent correspondence. This transaction is strictly
confidential but 100% risks free. Note also that the particular nature of
your business is irrelevant to this transaction and this transaction is
expected to
be concluded within 15 working days since all local contacts and
arrangements have been properly perfected for a smooth and successful conclusion
of this transaction.

Note however, that you may be required to visit Nigeria or any of the NNPC
Off- Shore Offices in Europe or better-still, i with one of my colleagues
may come over to your country in order to enter into a TRUST BOND with you.This
is very necessary because of our last experience in 2003 with an Iranian
Oil Marchant who cleverly swindled us of the sum of (US$18M) after the
money had been transferred into his nominated bank account in Tehran, Iran.
Based on the foregoing, we shall like to establish a Memorandum of Understanding
with you. Hence the need for a TRUST BOND. and also for the increasing number
of Internet Scams associated with letters like these.

We shall be relying on your advise as regards investments of our share of
70% of the total sum of (US$45M) in any blue-chip Company in your country.Be
informed that this business is genuine and 100% safe considering the high-powered
government officials involved. If this proposal is acceptable by you, please
reply me back immediately with a letter of acceptance alongwith your direct
telephone(cell phone if any) and fax numbers only on this email address;{phil_chukwu02@zipmail.com.br},
then more details will be given to you.

Furthermore, I will suggest that you open a new and fresh account for this
transaction with no money in the account, but this account you must have
a 100% total control of, this is very important my dear good friend for
i hope to build a lifetime relationship with you and your family. Trust
is good, but Proof is better. Do give us a chance to prove the worthiness
of this project by giving us your unalloyed cooperation.We are requesting
you to co-operate with us since this is our only chance of claiming the
fund for we are not allowed as a matter of government policy to operate
any foreign account because of our status as civil/public servants.Hence
the need to solicit for your account with your assistance to transfer this
fund into for investment purpose for our mutaul benefit.


Thank you in anticipation,
Yours faithfully,
Phillp Chukwu (Mr.)




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