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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: BALA TUKUR <wilkfour4@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 08:57:54 +0000
Subject: URGENT MATTER; CARTER





>From the Desk Of DR BALA TUKUR B.SC PHD; MNIE FIE
NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION, LAGOS.
PLOT 7, KOFO ABAYOMI STREET,
VICTORIA ISLAND,
LAGOS - NIGERIA.

We
are members of the special committee for budget and planning of the
Ministry of Petroleum. This committee is principally concerned with
contract appraisals and approval of contracts in order of priorities as
regards CAPITAL PROJECTS of the Federal Government of Nigeria. With our
positions, we have successfully secured for ourselves the sum of
Forty-one Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars(US$41.5M).


Therefore, after due deliberation with my
partners, we decided to forward to you this proposal. We believe that
you would be in a position to help us in our bid to transfer the sum of
US$41.5M(Forty-0ne million, five hundred thousand dollars only) into a
foreign account. We shall make it 100% legal as much possible as you
would want.


We are working with the present Democratically
elected Government in my country, and we are seeking the support of
Foreign Government to win the next election coming up, which the race
has started. So they have given directive to all Federal Parastatals to
settle all Foreign Contractors being owed for contract that they have
done. Therefore, our plan is to include your name as one of the
contractors being owed in our corporation.

What we need from you
is to provide a safe Account into which the funds will be transferred
since Government Officials in my country are not allowed by our laws to
Operate Foreign Accounts. It has been agreed that you will be
compensated with US$8.3 Million of the remitted funds. US$31.125Million
belongs to us, while US$2.075Million will be set aside to offset
expenses and pay the necessary taxes.

It may interest you to know
that two years ago a similar transaction was carried out with one Mr.
Mike lee, of 900 Pasadena Ave. S. Pasadena, Fl 33707 with Telephone
727-510-7196 and Telex Number 1-866-867-0054. After the agreement
between both of us in which he was to take 25% of the money as his
share, the money was duly transferred into his Account. We were
disappointed on our arrival in florida as we were reliably informed that
Mr. mike lee was no longer on that address while his Telephone and
Telex Numbers have been reallocated to somebody else [ Tara Hills LMT
Inc ] That was how we lost US$27.5M to Mr.mike lee.

This time
around we would not want you to be like that. We need a more reliable
and trustworthy person and a reputable Company to do this business with,
hence we contacted you. So if you can prove yourself to be trusted and
interested in this deal then we are prepared to do business with you.
What we want from you is the assurance that you will let us have our
share when this amount of US$41.5M is transferred into your account.

If
this proposal satisfies you, please contact us, so we can advice you on
the modalities of the transaction. All modalities of this transfer,
have been worked out and once started will not take more than 14 Banking
days with the absolute support of all concerned. This transaction is
100% safe and risk free now and after the transfer. Kindly treat this as
urgent and very confidential.

KINDLY GET BACK TO ME WITH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION


1) Your Full Name...........
2) Phone, Mobile number/fax if any.....
3) Profession, Age and Marital Status............
4) Company Name, Position And Address.......
5) location ........
6) Scanned Copy Of Your Int'l Passport OR driver's license.............


Looking forward to a good business relationship with you. All confidential emails to only my private email address

I urgently hope to get your response as soon as possible.

Best regards.
DR BALA TUKUR
Department of Budget and Planning
Ministry of Petroleum,
Lagos-Nigeria



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