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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: "=?iso-8859-1?q?From:=20Engr.=20S=20Azubuike?=" <az_001sum@yahoo.de>
Reply-To: sa23_winna@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:42:37 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Re: Engr. Summawinna Azubuike Offer for Investment


Ich habe eine neue E-Mail-Adresse!Ich bin jetzt unter folgender E-Mail-Adresse zu erreichen: az_001sum@yahoo.de

FROM THE DESK OF ENGR. SUMMAWINNA,

DIRECTOR FOR PROJECT/IMPLEMENTATION.

NNPC.

If Interested call me Tel: + 234-8060683250


Dear Friend,


I am Engr. Summawinna Azubuike a Director, project implementation with the

Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) based in Warri, Delta State, Nigeria.


In November 2004, I and my colleagues received gratification of Ten million, Five hundred thousand US Dollars ($10,500,000.00) from a foreign firm for the construction of and maintenance of 250 Million (LPG) Gas Plant at Warri Refinery. This fund in question is under the custody of Security Company here in Nigeria a country in a West African sub-region for safekeeping pending when we are ready for onward transfer into a foreign outside Africa.


As a civil servant still in an active service we are prohibited to operate a foreign account therefore we are seeking for a foreign partner who can assist in receiving this fund and at the same time advice us for a lucrative business investment which he will be managing or on the other hand, help us to oversee on our behalf pending when we retire and possible come over for our investment. For this reason we are contacting you for such undertaken and if eventually you are willing and ready for such business, we have agreed to give you 20% of the total sum while we shall have 70% and the remaining 10% has been mapped out for any expenses we might encounter during the process of the transfer of the above fund.


I have been mandated to seek for a trustworthy foreign company or an individual who could help to provide bank account to receive the money for investment without any hitch.


Should you be interested, please send us an email on the email address below for further information that will help you make your decision.



Best Regard,

Engr. Summawinna Azubuike




- From: Engr. S Azubuike


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