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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: "Engineer Usman Musa" <usmanmusa01@nnpc.net>
Reply-To: engineerusmanmusa@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 23:16:08 +0700 (ICT)
Subject: Your candid attn:




--
Engineer Usman Musa,
Department of Budget and Planning
Ministry of Petroleum,
Lagos-Nigeria

Your candid attn:


REF: URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL.


Most competent people are chosen for competent jobs and assignments, and with
that due respect have we also chosen to select you and contact you on this
very
confidential matter. Our Nigerian Chamber of Commerce and industry offers
variety of names of notable people from your part of the
Globe. That was where I got your information from. Therefore, after due
deliberation with my partners, we decided to forward to you this proposal. We
believe that you would be in a position to help us in our bid to transfer the
sum of US$41.5M(Forty-0ne million, five hundred thousand
dollars only) into a foreign account. We shall make it 100% legal as much
possible as you would want.


We are members of the special committee for budget and planning of the
Ministry
of Petroleum. This committee is principally concerned with contract
appraisals
and approval of contracts in order of priorities as regards CAPITAL
PROJECTS of
the Federal Government of Nigeria. With our
positions, we have successfully secured for ourselves the sum of Forty-one
Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars(US$41.5M). We are
working
with the present democratically elected Government in my country, and we are
seeking the support of Foreign Government to win the next
election coming up, which the race has started. So they have given
directive to
all Federal Parastatal to settle all Foreign Contractors being owed for
contract
that they have done. Therefore, our plan is to include your name as one of
the
contractors being owed in our corporation.

What we need from you is to provide a safe Account into which the funds
will be
transferred since Government Officials in my country are not allowed by
our laws
to Operate Foreign Accounts. It has been agreed that you will be compensated
with US$8.3 Million of the remitted funds.
US$31.125Million belongs to us, while US$2.075Million will be set aside to
offset expenses and pay the necessary taxes.

It may interest you to know that two years ago a similar transaction was
carried
out with one Patrice Miller, the C.E.O of Crane International Trading
Corporation at number 135, East 57th street, 28th floor, New York 10022, with
Telephone (212)308-7788 and Telex Number 6731689. After the agreement between
both of us in which he was to take 25% of the money as his share, the
money was
duly transferred into his Account. We were disappointed on our arrival in New
York as we were reliably informed that Mr. Patrice Miller was no longer on
that
address while his Telephone and Telex Numbers have been reallocated to
somebody
else. That was how we lost US$27.5M to Mr.Patrice
Miller.


This time around we would not want you to be like that. We need a more
reliable
and trustworthy person and a reputable Company to do this business with,
hence
we contacted you. So if you can prove yourself to be trusted and
interested in
this deal then we are prepared to do business
with you. What we want from you is the assurance that you will let us have
our
share when this amount of US$41.5M is transferred into your account.


If this proposal satisfies you, please contact us, so we can advice you on
the
modalities of the transaction. All modalities of this transfer, have been
worked
out and once started will not take more than 7 Banking days with the absolute
support of all concerned. This transaction is 100% safe and risk free now and
after the transfer. Kindly treat this as urgent and
very confidential.


Best regards.


Engineer Usman Musa,
Department of Budget and Planning
Ministry of Petroleum,
Lagos-Nigeria

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