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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: Rajkumar Agarwal <rajkr_agarwal03@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <rajkr_1959@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 19:15:14 -0600
Subject: STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL




From:
Mr.Rajkumar Agarwal
rajkr_1959@yahoo.com
Nigerian National Pet.Corp.
Lagos-Nigeria.

Attn: President/Ceo.
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL
RE: TRANSFER OF US$21.5 MILLION (TWENTY ONE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED
THOUSAND US DOLLARS ONLY).
I know this email will reach you as a surprise,but need not to worry as we are using the only secured and confidential medium available to seek for foreign assistance/partnership in a business transaction which is of mutual benefit.
I am a member of the Government of Nigeria Contract Award and Monitoring Committee in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC)Sometime ago,a contract was awarded to a foreign firm in NNPC by my Committee.This contract was over invoiced to the tune of US$21.5M.U.S.Dollars. This was done deliberately,the over-invoicing was a deal by my committee to benefit from the project. We now want to transfer this money which is in a suspense Account with NNPC into any Overseas Account which we expect you to provide for us.
SHARE: - For providing the account where we shall remit the money into,you will be entitled to 20% of the money,70% will be for me and my partners while 10% has been mapped out from the total sum to cover any upfront or out of pocket expenses that may be incurred by all parties during the course of this transfer,both locally and international expenses.In order for us to commence the transaction i would require the
following: -
1.Your company's name,address,telephone and fax numbers.
2.Your bank name,address and account details.(May be an account with
zero balance)
The above information would be use to make formal applications as a matter of procedure for the release of the money and onward transfer to your account.It does not matter whether or not your company does contract projects of this nature described here. The assumption is that your company won the major contract and subcontracted it out to other companies.More often than not,big trading companies or firms of unrelated fields win major contracts and subcontracts to more specialized firms for execution of such contracts. We have strong reliable connections and contacts at the Central Bank Of Nigeria,as well as the Ministry of Finance and we have no doubt that all the money will be released and transferred if we get the necessary foreign partner to assist us in this deal.Therefore, when the business is successfully concluded we shall through our same connections withdraw all documents used from all the concerned Government Ministeries for 100% security.
We are ordinary Government workers and we will not want to miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to get rich. We want this money to be transferred to the overseas Accounts for us,before the present Government start Auditing all Government owned Parastatals accounts. Please contact me immediately through my email addresses whether or not you areinterested in this deal.If you are not,it will enable me scout for another foreign partner to carry out this deal.But where you are interested,
send the required documents aforementioned herein through my confidential email address (rajkr_1959@yahoo.com) as time is of the essence in this business.
I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.
Yours faithfully,
Mr.Rajkumar Agarwal
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