419 scam: sadiq erezi <sadiqerezi@yahoo.com.au> PLS REQUEST FOR YOUR ASSISTANT...or More Details.........erŒë¸"

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "foreign payment department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
- "nigeria national petroleum corporation" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
- "chief auditor" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- sadiqerezi@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: sadiq erezi <sadiqerezi@yahoo.com.au>
Reply-To: sadiqerezi@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 05:07:33 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: PLS REQUEST FOR YOUR ASSISTANT

Dear Friend,

l hope this mail will not offend your mind since l had no previous contact with you but because of the urgency of this transaction l decided to contact you.

l am Mr. Sadiq Erezi the deputy Director of Finance in the foreign payment department of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). I was mandated by my Director and the chief auditor in my department. To look for someone, a company or an an individual in your country who be willing to assist us in a business which need a foreign partner like you to execute.

We have $17.8m(Seventeen million, eighth hundred thousand Dollars only) as over invoiced bills after auditing. For this l decided to contact you. This money arose from deliberate over-invoiced bills which we added during last Military regime, to a foreign Company that supplied equipments for the reconstruction of part of a broken down refinery and security equipment, and also did a maintainers work on a pipe line.

Now, the new government in power headed by Dr. Goodluck Jonathan (GCFR), has directed that all contracts duly completed during and after the last regime be paid in this financial fiscal year 2010. It is this remaining over-value sum stated above, that I and other official in this Department of ministry the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation we decided to PULL into your account for safety keeping, or for any possible investment in your country, and subsequently disbursement in the percentage as follows:30% for you the account owner, 65% for us the partners in Nigeria and 5% for taxation and any other expenses that might be incured during the course of this transaction.

After the transaction two officials will be coming to your country to take care of our own Fund.

1. Note that we shall request you to assist us and use 20% of our share to purchase (GSM) telephone handset) is a good market here, You buy them with your name, and we will give you a trading company name and address which you will ship the goods to, This is a way we shall use to take our own share of the fund back home.

2. You will also assist us to open an account in any credible bank in your country with international affiliation outside.

Once i receive a positive response from you, details on this transaction will be done shall be send to you.

3.note you are expected to maintain confidentiality of this project that we have put in many years of meticulous services to the government with maturity, top most secrecy. Dear Friend if this offer is accepted by you, kindly reply through this email address: (sadiqerezi@gmail.com) Thank you very much for your anticipated co-operation.

Best Regards, Mr. Sadiq Erezi

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