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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!

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From: yuyao_seamless001@comcast.net (Yuyao Seamless Oil Plc.)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:16:09 +0000
Subject: Tip and Top of the most day.,

Tip and Top of the most day.,

Established in 1999, Yuyao Seamless Oil Pipe Co., Ltd is a newly established, modernized and professional enterprise dealing with the manufacturing of seamless steel pipes for the petroleum industry. Our main products include casing and tubing for the petroleum industry with multiple specifications, grades, materials and connections, which are widely used in on-shore and off-shore well-drilling for oil and gas as well as pipe line transferring. In addition, WSP also produces perforating pipes, drill pipes and line pipes in different specifications to meet the demands of different clients. WSP has plenty of high technology and new technology products and national patents including buttress tubing, tubes for perforating guns, upsetting tubing, 37Mn5 modulated casing, premium connection WSP-1T, high casing WSP-105H for hot well-drilling, and non-API high collapse casing WSP95T and WSP110T.

Please be well informed that our dealings with serious individuals shall be based on executed contracts and the likes.I would like to crave your indulgence to say that we are an oil company that intends to expand our business frontiers to expand our import/export capabilities.We execute contracts for various oil companies round the globe.We would like you to be our international partner in an oil deal which we would like to be a part of in IRAQ but this has nothing to do with you because its a hugh multi-million dollar deal in IRAQ.

Just to let you know more,our company was contacted some few weeks ago by a General from the US MARINES in IRAQ concerning this oil deal and i was able to speak with the General on this and everything about the deal is legit and confirmed possible.,so our company is willing to further with this deal.Now we require a whole lot of capital to partake in that venture so we have decided to follow with a contract our company did in RUSSIA in 2006 for the Russian government.

The contract our company did for the Russian government was worth $116,500,000MUSD and they made payments to us months after with an appreciation funds of $18,000,000USD which i did not tell my board of trustees about.Ever since then the funds have been moved by me and a colleague to a bank in the UK for fear of my company not finding out that we are in possession of such a hugh amount which we were suppose to have submitted to the company initially,with this,i believe they should not know about it as our jobs will be on the line.

Now i have told our company that i can source for a finiancier that will be able to fund part of the deal since my company's accountant has said we have some funds to partake in the oil deal in IRAQ.What i want from you is to stand as the financier that i have found owning that funds ($18,000,000MUSD) in UK.I can have an attorney in UK endorse you as the sole beneficiary of this funds so that your name can be attached to the funds as the owner, that way my company can never know that the funds belongs to i and my partner.This is very sensible and should be made confidential.

Please note that i can go the extra miles to see that you and i negotiate a good percentage sharing rate for the funds in UK.I know that you can devote your time into this so i need us to discuss how much % could be agreeable and suitable for your troubles in standing as a sole beneficiary of the funds in UK.

Why i love to have my funds used in this oil deal in IRAQ is that the profits our company will make in the oil deal will be so enormous and i would like to be a share holder in its profits.The oil deal is suppose to cost our company $350,000,000MUSD but they have not up to that so this way i have to in vest my funds in it to earn a good profit that can change my life around.

I will stop here for now until i hear from you if it will be possible for you to assist me in what i have stated above.Be rest assured that all this is legit and its risk free but if i had my way i wouldn't have contacted you at all in the first place but i dont wanna lose my job until this comes true. Do get back at me to my private mail address;
( yuyao_seamless@yahoo.com.cn )

Hoping to hear from you soon.

Regards.,
Tony Wei (Director)
Yuyao Seamless Oil Pipe Co., Ltd
51 Cangtian Industrial Zone, Cixi, Ningbo City,
Zhejiang China
Tel: 86-500-85360143

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