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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!

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From: "SAMUEL" <smartins@ozu.es>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:56:15
Subject: PETROLEUM DEAL FOR YOU AND ME

My name is Mr Samuel a south African and an oil businessman that used my diplomatic immunity, influence and status to help safe-keep special and valuable packages and bags in trust for reputable clients. As you may know,many foreign ships are flying the Liberian flag and so it is practically easy to transport any cargo , most especially if it bears a diplomatic emblem of the Liberian government.
To be honest, I got your email address through a reliable source who has given me a guarantee that you are the right person with whom I should conduct this transaction of such huge magnitude. Do not ask whom it is as I promised not to disclose it. The most important thing is the deal at hand.
Right now, I have been stripped of my diplomatic immunity and put on house arrest, together with my two partners involved in the deal. We are confined to our homes and all our calls are monitored, as a result, it is absolutely impossible for us to do anything regarding retrieving our funds deposited in Europe. My only means of communication is via the internet mail, through a proxy server as my ip server is being channeled to the government.
Between the year 2006 to 2007, the Liberian government gave a contract to the Liberian petroleum refining company a permission to import on the governments behalf the sum of 10,000 barrels of crude oil daily for a period of 1 year from the Nigerian national petroleum corporation. The contract was subcontracted by the Liberian petroleum refining company to ADDAX OIL COMPANY in Monrovia. Liberia.
The original permission was to import 3,650,000 barrels ( three million ,six hundred thousand barrels ) which amounted to 10,000 barrels per day, but I in collaboration with the former managing director , MR HARRY A GREAVES JNR and some other trusted members of the board of directors of ADDAX imported a total of 4,652,796 barrels at a value of $318,761,591.24 ( THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN MILLION , SEVEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY ONE THOUSAND AND FIVE HUNDRED AND NINETY ONE DOLLARS PLUS 24 CENTS ). In this operation , there was an excess import of 1,002,796 barrels ( ONE MILLION, TWO THOUSAND ,SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY SIX BARRELS ) which the Liberian government paid for in full.
>From this 1 million excess oil deal , we realized a profit of $70 ,000,000.00 ( SEVENTY MILLION DOLLARS) plus the profit raised from the refined and finished product, raising the profit to $100,000,000.00 ( ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS) which I personally secretly transported out of Liberian through one of our sister ship that bears our Liberian flag to deposit the cash in a security company in Europe.
Do realize that this money is clean and clear and has nothing to do with any form of blood diamond. Besides, when we realized this operation , the Liberian civil war has stopped long time ago in 2003. It was done under the democratic and peaceful government of MrsEllen Johnson Sirleaf. I am not trying to say what we did is good, but , it was just business that never hurt nobody , infact, it was just about the sale of excess crude oil imported legally which happens everyday as excess supply to some companies world-wide.
All documents needed to prove the source of the fund were submitted when the fund was deposited in the security company in compliance with the international law on deposit of large amount of fund which is based on authenticating the source of all huge funds and also proving that the fund has no link whatsoever with neither drug trafficking, terrorism, arms nor blood diamond.
It took us expensive ideas and money to arrange all the preparations for this transaction to meet all legal and administrative requirements in Liberia and those of international arbitration as the modalities applied to international oil transaction and monetary activities have changed due to incessant changes in monetary policies world-wide.
Most of all, I wish to bring to your notice that the personalities involved in this transaction are top and influential government officials whom would not wish any form of exposure and as such would most likely urge you to keep the business highly confidential. It is not a deal that you should go about spreading around. You must keep this information to yourself alone as any leak in this information would mean the end of the fund for you and for us. Money is money, it does not really matter how you get it , in as much as it is not a blood money. All the billionaire worldwide have done one deal or the other to start up their huge business empires. Aswell, I will reiterate my promise that you should be rest assured that this transaction is 100% risk free.
Now that I have notified you everything that has to do with the fund, I would now want to get down to what we wish you to do for us: We would like you to help us transfer the fund to your personal or company account through the help of our legal adviser in Europe. When you have the fund in your possession, you only have to deduct your share of 15% and repatriate the rest of the fund to the account that we would provide to you. Do realize thatthis transaction is a well articulated and monitored transaction and confidentiality should be our watchword .
For your participation in this deal, we are prepared to concede 15% of the total amount to you for your cooperation and effort which amounts to 15 million dollars. My partners and I are actually looking forward to doing business with you, so if you are interested, do respond back to me through any of the following emails, and then, I would notify you on the legal adviser to contact to finalize this transaction urgently. As a matter of fact, the whole process would not take more than 15 working days.
http://odili.net/news/source/2012/feb/10/845.html
http://africatv1.com/Dawala/?p=3764
http://theliberiantimes.com/?p=5722

CONTACT ME : Emails:
smartin@ozu.es
samuelmartins@ozu.es
s.martins63@yahoo.com


Yours sincerely
Mr Samuel

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