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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: "Michael K. Epong" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <michaelkepong90@e-mail.ua>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 05:16:56 -0700
Subject: FOR MUTUAL BUSINESS TRANSACTION

Attention:

I greet you. I know this mail will come to you as a surprise but i need to contact you because of the urgency and confidentiality of this business

transaction. I am Chief Account officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC.

Without waste of time, i have a deal here in my office i need a foreign partner to execute with me. I and one of my colleagues over invoiced the contract

payment valued US$50million. We awarded contracts for the supply and maintenance of all the oil pipelines and oil drilling equipments for the nation oil

wells to some foreign contractors valued US$103billion, which we over invoiced to with US$50million addition to the total contract sum with my position.

Now as a matter of fact, most of the contractors have been paid and the remaining contractor’s payments are under processing to be paid to them. With that, i

and my colleague have decided to include you among these remaining contractors to process the sum of the US$50Million on your company or on your name to

claim it for our mutual benefit. So i am now contacting you to present you as the sub-contractor who has this amount of US$50million to be paid for the

supply of heavy oil drilling equipments used in recent overhauling at the beginning of this year.

I will advice you furnish me with your personal information including your personal cell phone number and the name of your company with address if you have

for me to register it with our cooperate affairs commission in charge of allied and companies registration as an indigenous company. it is mandatory that any

foreign company must also be registered in this country. Also with your acceptance to execute this business with me and sure of your confidentiality towards

the conclusion of this deal, you will be given 30% of the total amount, while I and my colleague will take 70% once the money gets into your company account

in your country. Also with me and my position here, I can officially arrange with you to be lifting 2 or 4million barrels of Crude Oil per month by getting a

year or two years crude Oil allocation contract on your name and company name whether you are here or not. With this we can make more money from the oil

lifting here in Nigeria. I will detail you more on this once you accept to deal with this proposal.

Thanks and hope to hear from you as soon as possible. Send me your cell phone number to call you for more details.

Best Regards

Mr. Michael K. Epong
Chief Account Officer
N.N.P.C
NNPC Towers, Central Business District,
Herbert Macaulay Way,
Garki, Abuja.

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