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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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Fraud email example:

From: Kwame Opong <kwame_opong@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 08:33:52 -0800 (PST)
Subject: A Very Goodday To You: Response Needed



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. Their 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.

I am (Paul Acquah), the son of Dr Acquah Iyang the former Director of Yuyao Seamless Oil Pip Co,Ltd? Please be well informed that Their dealings with serious individuals shall be based on executed contracts and the likes.I would like to crave your indulgence to say that My Father are an oil company workers that intends to expand Their business frontiers to expand Their import/export capabilities.there execute contracts for various oil companies round the globe.there would like you to be Their 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 hough multi-million dollar deal in IRAQ.

Just to let you know more,my fathers company was contacted some few years ago by a General from the US MARINES in IRAQ concerning this oil deal and he my father was able to speak with the General on this and everything about the deal is legit and confirmed possible.,so their company is willing to further with this deal.Now there require a whole lot of capital to partake in that venture so there have decided to follow with a contract their company did in RUSSIA in 2005 for the Russian government.

The contract their company did for the Russian government was worth $116,500,000MUSD and they made payments to them months after with an appreciation funds of ($18,000,000USD) which my father did not tell their board of trustees about about this appreciation funds..Ever since then the funds have been moved by him and a colleague to a bank in the UK for fear of their company not finding out that there are in possession of such a hough amount which there 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.

And after about two months interval the funds was later Transfered From the Bank in the UK to Africa a World -Wide Security Company called (BELMONT SECURITY COMPANY),base in Accra - Ghana,And he safely deposited the funds they as a Family valuables which the security company are not aware of the content of the boxes,

Now my father have told their company that he can source for a financier that will be able to fund part of the deal since their company's accountant has said they have some funds to partake in the oil deal in IRAQ. Before the dead of my father, and my father also state this to me before he died on a great healness of cancer of the heart before he died he state all this about the funds for me which he deposit in the Security Company and gave his barrister all the necessary documentations needed to get the funds out of the Security Company which are (mapped) with my name as the Next of Kin and he warned me never to disclose this to any one that i should keep it in secret except only the barrister is also aware of it, So Therefore I want you to stand and be our foreign beneficiary to this funds and withdraw this funds out from the security company as the direct beneficiary of this consignment and direct me on how best we can invest this money, because my father told me that it
is dangerous to invest this money in Africa to avoid suspicions, and due to market instability coupled with economic and political instability facing African countries, that is why we want to invest in Abroad. For your mutual assistance, my mother and myself have, agreed to offer you 25% of the total sum, that way their company can never know that the funds belongs to my late father and his 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 In your country when the funds have successfully delivered to you .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 To Receive in Your Country.Why I love to have my funds used in completing my study and invest over there in your country way I have to invest my funds into a good profitable business 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 can not be directly to the fund because i am not to do that . Do get back at me to my private mail address;
( drpaul_acquah@terra.es )
Hoping to hear from you soon.

Regards.,
PAUL ACQUCH
(For The Family)




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