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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: "alexnosikeoillicense@admin.in.th" <alexnosikeoillicense@admin.in.th>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:57:33 -0430 (VET)
Subject: BUSINESS IDEAS READ AND GET BACK TO ME



GAIVON OIL AND GAS RSA
36 South Nevil Road
Cape Town, 2812
South Africa
Good
day Sir/Ma, I choose to reach you through e-mail, as it is the fastest
medium of communication irrespective of the fact that it has been
greatly abused. I deem it necessary to introduce you to a lucrative
business opportunity. I’m talking of crude oil trading! This is
considered as the most legitimate and fastest money making machinery
anyone can setup.

A crude oil “lifting license” gives the owner
the mandate of the National Oil Company (Suppliers of the crude oil), to
locate crude oil buyers and arrange a buy/sale crude oil transaction
between the oil company and the crude oil buyers.

The “lifting
license” syndrome came into place because the national oil company does
not deal directly with the buyers of the crude oil rather; they prefer
to issue oil “lifting license allocations” to individuals/companies to
assist them to market the crude oil which they produce.

Anyone
that owns an oil lifting license” from the local National Oil Company is
entitle d to a \$2.00 commission from the oil company on each barrel of
crude sold to the buyer and another \$1. 00 commission from the buyer.

In
total, oil lifting license owners receives a \$3.00 commission on each
barrel of crude sold by the oil company. Please note that the commission
rates of \$2.00 and \$1.00 normally increases in times of crude oil
scarcity.

The smallest license allocation/quantity one can
procure from the National Oil Company is for the sale of 500,000 barrels
of crude monthly/per transaction.

This implies that 500,000
barrels of crude oil will be assigned to the license owner for sale per
month. This allocation size will earn the license owner about (\$3.00
multiply by 500,000 barrels) which is \$1.5 million gross commissions
monthly.
If one is lucky to secure a bigger allocation that means you
will be earning more commissions monthly. These commissions will be
calculated and paid to the license at the end of the sales transaction.

In
case you decide to invest in this money spinning project; I will
personally reveal to you a well packaged procedure to acquire an oil
lifting license.
I will personally assist you to locate the buyers of
the crude oil and facilitate the sales transactions for you while the
resulting commissions will be wired into your overseas nominated banking
co-ordinates as the license owner. You need a “seller agent” to assist
you to sale the crude since you are alien to this business and do not
know the buyers for the crude oil and also because you are not locally
resident here.
Feel free to ask for clarifications. Contact me on my private email: alexnosikeoillicense@admin.in.th

Engr. Alex N
alexnosikeoillicense@admin.in.th

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