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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: Andrew Knight <cc767966@gmail.com>
Reply-To: david.mark546@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 13:36:57 -0800
Subject: Re: Urgent Business Transaction Request!

>From the Desk of Andrew Knight
Chief Executive and Managing Director
New Zealand's Oil & Gas Company Ltd
393 Armagh Street Linwood
Christchurch 8011
New Zealand

2nd January 2014

Dear Foreigner

I above mentioned Name person having gone through your potential profile
and acknowledged your caliber of person with your information therein, I
have made up my mind to email you with information’s herein; to be
precisely it took me a lot of time to summon courage to email you, as the
Chief Executive and Managing Director of New Zealand's Oil & Gas Company
Ltd.

For proper confirmation, visit: <http://www.nzog.com/staff> which I knew
that it might interest you to go through my credentials via our staff
profile list on this link, I shall also attach copy of my Working official
Identity card and other relevant information for authentic reasons.

This oil firm has been on a project called the Kupe project Taranaki New
Zealand the first phase development of gas field discoveries first made by
New Zealand Oil and Gas (NZOG) in 1986.The project was given the final go
ahead to move into the construction phase in July 2006. However, a large
amount of design, assessment and pre-development work preceded this
decision.

For proper verification that was why I had sent you this official link,
<http://www.hydrocarbons-technology.com/projects/kupe/> the development
budget for the Kupe project was estimated at NZ980m (USd594m). NZOG's
share is NZ147m and the total investment, however, reached 1.3bn.

With my position in this oil firm project, I have moved out some huge
amount of money out of the oil project volt to Barclays Bank London
England, meanwhile I did my homework very well because I have the
machineries in place to get it done, since I am still in active service.

If it was possible for me to do it alone, I would not have contacted you,
ultimately I need your honest to play an important role in the completion
of this business deal as this Fund Values {$13.8USD} Thirteen Million and
Eight Hundred Thousand United States Dollars has since 15th of March 2013
confirmed with this Bank as over invoice by my veryself.

The Kupe project is the first phase development of gas field discoveries
made by New Zealand Oil and Gas (NZOG) in 1986.In your replyi will direct
you to the concerned Bank as the outstanding contractor who owned the
deposited fund to enable us share as refferred below as pertiners.

The project was given the final go-ahead to move into the construction
phase in July 2006. However, a large amount of design, assessment and
pre-development work preceded this decision. Re-confirm your full
information

Your Full Name: --------
Your Complete Address: ----------
Your Direct Mobile Number: --------------
Your Direct Telephone Number: ------------
Present Occupation: ---------
Age: -----------------
Copy of your personal identification: ------
Country: -------------

I look forward hearing from you in person and doing good business with you
and please treat as confidential, The Kupe project gas reserves came
online on 18 March 2010.It produces 0.07 pet joules of gas, which will
power an average of 300,000 homes annually. It also produces 300t of LPG
and 7,500 barrels of light crude per day.

The project is expected to produce 20 pet joules of commercial sales gas
per year.This quantity of gas will meet 15% of New Zealand's annual needs.
The project will also produce 1.7 million barrels of condensate per year
and 90,000t of LPG per year.

For matter of urgency you are directed to open communication with me
through my private email Contact information for more clarifications,
while I forward you the contact information of the Bank together with
other relevant information to prove you the outstanding Beneficiary of the
fund before the Bank, while we shall discourse our sharing formula which
shall be 30% For You and I Shall take 70% for myself.

Contact me on my private Email: info.knightoilgas@globomail.com

Signed:


Mr.Andrew Knight
Chief Executive and Managing Director
New Zealand’s Oil & Gas Company

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