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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: from Crude Shell Company UK <crudeshell@live.com>
Reply-To: crudeshells@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:34:23 +0200
Subject: INVESTMENT PROPOSAL



An Official Letter from Crude Shell Oil & Gas Company UK
To whom it may concern:
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 twenty Million Great Britain
Pounds (GBP 20,000, 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 for investment
purpose. 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 as initial capital fund 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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