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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: CRUDESHELL OIL & GAS COMPANY UK <crudeshell@live.com>
Reply-To: info@cdpetroleumoil.com
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:54:56 +0900
Subject: INVESTMENT PROPOSAL

Dear Sir/Madam,
We are contacting you base on investment opportunity. We would like to
use this
moment to inform you about this available proposal that shall benefit
you and this
company largely at the end of the transaction. Our Company is the
United Kingdom OIL
& GAS Company. We would also have to inform you that at the end of
every year, this
company generates fund profit and deposit the fund in the bank.
Meanwhile, this
company has the saving sum amount of one hundred Million Great Britain
Pounds (GBPS
100,000, 000) in the bank presently. Moreover, the company has been
saving this fund
with the bank for many years ago until now. Perhaps, at the end of our
last meeting
in the office, the company had agreed and decided to invest this fund
in overseas.
But we are in search of a reliable individual/sector in overseas that we shall
recommend as a foreign business partner so that we can be able to
transfer the fund
into his/her country of location. We want to know if
you are interested in this business, to enable you stand as this
company business
partner to represent this company in your country, so that the company will
transfer this fund to you into your country. As soon as you receive
this fund in
your country, you are going to have 30% commission of the total fund
which shall be
your compensation benefit from the total fund transferred to you from
the company
account, meanwhile, the remaining 70% shall be used to set up the
investment in
your country. Perhaps, we would appreciate your kind effort to let us
know any
kind of business that would be suitable to invest this fund into in
your country.
Also note that, this investment shall be owned between you and this
company, as
business ethic demands, this company and you shall abide on joint agreement in
business partnership which shall states approve evidence to show that the
investment empire that is about to establish in your country shall be
owned/belonged
to the company and also you henceforth. Please take note that, after the
establishment of the investment in your country, you shall be receiving 20%
commission allowance benefit at the end of every month as our
overseer?s business
partner in representing the company business/investment empire in your
country. We
would honor your kind understanding towards this investment proposal and also
welcoming your reply at the company e-mail addresses below:
E-mail:info@cdpetroleumoil.com & E-mail:cdoil@instruction.com

Best Regards?
The crude shell Oil & Gas Company United Kingdom

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