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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: "John Ibe" <johnibe01@msn.com>
Reply-To: johnibe@uymail.com
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 04:30:49 +0000
Subject: URGENT BUSINESS TRANSACTION

FROM THE DESK OF CHIEF JOHN IBE
NNPC "CONTRACT TENDER COMMITTEE"NNPC PIPELINES MAINTENANCE PROJECT)
LAGOS NIGERIA
DATE 20/DEC/12/ 2005



Dear Friend,

URGENT BUSINESS TRANSACTION/ASSISTANCE TO TRANSFER (US$31M)THIRTY ONE
MILLION U.S DOLLARS INTO YOUR PRIVATE ACCOUNT. Your esteemed company
particulars were further from the chemers of commerce and industry Lagos.
Though we did not discuss with any official of the commerce industry the
reason for which we are contacting you.

I am Chief john ibe the Group Managing director of NNPC "CONTRACT TENDER
COMMITTEE" NNPC PIPELINES MAINTENANCE PROJECT). of the Nigerian National
Petroluem Crporation , Lagos Nigeria. I have been mandated by the Chairman
Contranct Tender Board of Directors (NNPC) to source for a trusted foreign
account where the sum of 31M will be transferred to.
As Civil servant we are not permitted by the law of our country to operate
or own foreign account and this money cannot go into an indigenous account
because the contract and suppliers were being executed by foreign firms,
this is why we are asking for your assitance to provide an account for us to
facilitate the transfer of this fund for mutual benefit for both parties.
The $31M is an accumulation of over invoicee contract inportation of goods,
which has already been executed and commissioned. This amount still lies in
the NNPC suspense account with tthe Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN) and still
in the fiscal year auditing as retention fee owned to a foreign company.

To transfer this money to the foreign companys account a fresh files has to
be op[ened here in Niegeria in the foreign company name. Therefore we
requested you to furnish us with your Banking particulars as follows:

1. YOUR COMPANY NAME, ADDRESS TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBER
2. NAME OF BANK, NAME OF ACCOUNT AND YOUR ACCOUNT NUMBER,

These documents should be faxed to me immediately you indicat your interest
in this project to enable the Federal Government to approve all the relevant
documents. It has been agreed that your company retain 25% of the $31M while
5% to offset any expenses incured by both parties during the course of the
transaction. While we would take the remaining 70% of the $31M.

To confide in you sir, all logistics are in place and modalites have been
worked out with some top officials of the Federal Ministry of Finance (FMF)
and Central Bank of Nigeria to facilitate the smooth and easy remittance of
the amount into your bank account with ten working days of getting your
positive response and confirmed consent. It is worthy to inform you that
transaction is entirly based on trust since this money is going to be paid
into your Bank Account.

Thereafter, representatives of my group will come to your country to handle
our own share of the proceed.
Bear in mind that this is absolutely a persona deal, non-official and should
be trated with measure of SECRECY even at the Bank level and absolutely
CONFIDENTIAL base on my position in the government.

Please get back immediately to me through my email above as :-
(johnibe400@yahoo.it)
I await your immediate response.

Yours sincerely,
Chief john ibe



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