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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: "Engr. AHMED BELLO" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <contract.projectnnpc@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:59:08 -0700
Subject: BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP

From the desk of the chairman
Contract Award Committee
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation,
N.N.P. C Building, Ikoyi-Lagos.
Website: http://www.nnpcgroup.com
 
Attn: Dear Sir,
 
Business partnership,
 
I am  Engr. AHMED BELLO , chairman of the Contract Award
Committee of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) .I am
mandated by my colleagues to crave your indulgence in assisting us to
transfer US$150 million  to any of your reliable account overseas.
 
The said fund US$150 million in question resulted from contract over
invoiced we perfected when we awarded contract for the construction of
OSO Crude Oil Evacuation pipeline network and Refineries equipments
and Petrochemicals equipments.
 
Now that the individual contractors have received their supposed
contract funds respectively, we want to transfer the over invoiced
fund US$150 million to your nominated account number for immediate
sharing/Investments.
 
All the necessary modalities have been perfected with the officials of
the Central Bank Nigeria (CBN) for onward transfer of the fund abroad.
 
Thus, if you have the capacity to prosecute this transaction, I advice
you send to me the following vital information of yours:
 
1.Full name of your bank
2.Address of your bank and the swift code
3.Telephone Number
4.Name of the account holder/Beneficiary and your Identity Card
 
My colleagues and I have resolved to offer you 30% of the total
money.10% would be mapped out to offset all the contingent expenses in
the course of the transaction while the remaining 60% will be shared
among the concerned officials here.
 
Be informed, top most secrecy must be observed through out this
transaction for security reasons.
 
I look forward to receiving your quick response.
Reply email; contract.projectnnpc@gmail.com.
 
Yours sincerely,
Engr. AHMED BELLO
(GED, Business Development)
 

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