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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: "Mr Livinus Ajonumah" <livinusajonumah22@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: livinus_ajonumah@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:32:47 +0100
Subject: URGENT PROFIT VENTURE

Dear Friend,

Foremostly,I want to apologize for the inconveniences this letter might have caused you. After due consultations, you were recommended to me by an in-law who recently relinquished his position as a diplomat in your country.My in-law confided in me of your capability and reliability to handle and safeguard the understated transaction.

I am Mr. Livinus Ajonumah, the Director of Finance and Accounts of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in collaboration with the Director of procurements and contract awards of the (NNPC). Following the meeting held in Oct 25th, 2004 by the management staffs of the Products and Pipelines Marketing Company(PPMC), the House Committee on contract
allocations and the Honourable Minister of Petroleum Resources resulted in collaborating with honest, trustful and capable foreign partners to handle the sub-contract of supplying of 30 Million barrels of petrol following the break down of our National Refineries which caused severe scarcity of fuel in the country then.

In this vein, a contract was awarded to us through our Corporation in the oil sector in oct last three years (2004}. We sub-contracted a firm from Venezuela that took up the contract. In the process of the contract, the contract was over-invoiced by adding (two dollars and fifty cents) per barrel and the total over-invoiced sum came to USD$125 Million.(One hunderd twenty five million U.S.Dollars). The actual contract value has been paid off to the Venezuelan firm as the contract has been fully completed by Sept,2005 while it is the over-invoiced amount that is left.

Sir,we strongly solicit for your assistance by helping take receipt of the funds into your nominated bank account in your country where we can transfer this fund. We expect that you send us the full contact info of the bank as well. Our fear is that we may be discharged from our position anytime due to the political instabilities in this country (Nigeria) and we are contacting you for the fact that we are civil servants and are not allowed by law and the anti-corruption task force to operate foreign accounts.We have concluded modalities for the transfer of this fund which is 100% risk free,so far as you are receiving the payment as a sister company to the contractors in Venezuela. Please let us have your phone/fax number for easy contact.

Thanks for your anticipated co-operation.

Best regard

Mr Livinus Ajonumah.
{NNPC}



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