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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Muha Gambo" <muha_3_gambo@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 09:15:35 -0500
Subject: urgent reply please

FROM: MR.MUHAMMED GAMBO.
CONTRACT AWARD CHAIRMAN,
NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION(NNPC)
LAGOS - NIGERIA.
TELEPHONE:234-8037227940
EMAIL:muha_gambo@myway.com



Dear Sir/Madam,


REQUEST FOR URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP IN RESPECT OF THE
TRANSFER OF US$15,600,000.00 (FIFTEEN MILLION SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND U.S
DOLLARS ONLY)

I fervently pray that this letter soliciting for your kind assistance will
not cause any embarrassment to you. I am aware that we have never seen each
other before, neither have we exchanged any form of formal contact or
correspondence before.I am equally also, aware that this world is full of
dishonest people but I sincerely hope that my humble letter will touch your
heart to assist us and give us the opportunity of being future inseparable.


I,on behalf of my other colleagues in the office (NNPC) have decided to
solicit your assistance as regards the transfer of the above stated amount
into your bank account. This fund arose from the over-invoicing of various
contracts awarded in my parastatal to certain foreign contractors sometime
ago.

We as holders of official positions in our various parastatals, were
mandated by this government to scrutinize all payments made to certain
foreign contractors, and we discovered that some of these contracts they
executed were grossly over-invoiced, either by omission or commission. Also,
we discovered that the sum of $15,600,000.00.(Fifteen million six hundred
thousand US Dollars only) was lying in a suspense account, although the
foreign contractors were fully paid their entitlements after executing the
said contracts.

We all agreed that the over-invoiced amount will be transferred (for our own
use) into a bank account provided by a foreign partner, as the code of
conduct of the Federal civil service does not allow us to operate foreign
accounts. We are therefore seeking for your assistance based on the
agreement been made written our self. The documents of this fund will be
speedily processed for immediate remittance of the fund into your bank
account.
On successful remittance of the fund into your account, you will be
compensated with 25% of the total amount for assistance and 5% to be set
aside for expenses on the process of this transaction while 70% is for me
and my colleagues. This transaction is closely knitted and in view of our
SENSITIVE POSITION we cannot afford a slip, I assure you that this
transaction is 100% risk free.We will avail you with our identities as
regards our respective offices when relationship is fully established and
smooth operation commences.

I am at your disposition to entertain any question(s) from you in respect of
this transaction, so, contact me immediately through my alternative e-mail
address: muha_gambo@myway.com

Please,note that this DEAL needs utmost confidentiality.

Yours faithfully,
Mr.Muhammed Gambo.


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