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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Bernard O.N. Otti" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <bernardonotti2012@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 01:29:10 +0100
Subject: REF: NPOC/AZ/2233/CAT01/2012

 
 
 
 
 
 
Greetings,
                                                                                     
Good day. 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 Mr. Bernard O.N. Otti,(Pictured above) Group Executive Director, Finance & Accounts(GED, F&A) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
 
 
 
 
 
I have a deal here in my office and I need a foreign partner to execute it with me. I have personally over-invoiced a contract payment which was awarded for the Supply & Maintenance of all the Oil Pipelines & Oil Drilling Equipments to Five Foreign Contractors valued US$90Billion, which I over-invoiced with US$10Billion addition to the total contract sum.
 
 
 
 
 
Now as a matter of fact, most of the contractors have been paid and the remaining contractor’s payments are under process to be paid to them. With that, I have decided to include you among these remaining contractors to process the sum of the US$10Billion in your company or in your name to claim it for our mutual benefit, The payment will be done in bits. So I want to present you as the sub-contractor who has this amount of US$10Billion to be paid. Quote this Refence (REF: NPOC/AZ/2233/CAT01/2012) in all our future Correspondences, please.
 
 
 
 
I will advice you furnish me with your personal information including your Home, Office and Cell Phone Numbers, Contact and Current Home and Office Addresses, Your Company's Name, Address to enable me register it with our Cooperate Affairs Commission, as It is mandatory that every Foreign Company that handle this Category "A" Contract must  be registered with us.
 
 
 
 
 
In the event you accept to execute this business with me, I need to be sure of your confidentiality towards the conclusion of this deal, you will be given 40% of the total amount, 10% is mapped out for re-fund of expenses incurred by any of the parties,while I and my colleague will take 50% once the money gets into your Company's Account in your country.
 
 
 
 
 
Also with my position here, I can officially arrange with you to be lifting between 10million to 20million barrels of Crude Oil per month by getting a year or two years Crude Oil Allocation Contract in your Name and/or your Company's Name whether you are here or not. I will detail you more on this once I get your positive response.
 
Best Regards and Thanks.
 
 
Mr. Bernard O.N. Otti
(GED, F&A)
REF: NPOC/AZ/2233/CAT01/2012
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