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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.Evidence Osakwe <pumbana@nehphil.com>
Reply-To: evid.osakwe@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 01:41:40 -0000
Subject: READ AND REPLY PLEASE!

Sir/Madam,



Owing to the current sanitisation of the Oil and Gas sector in The Federal

Republic of Nigeria by the present administration of President Goodluck Ebele

Jonathan, I write you this Proposal for an urgent business accord. I am the

current secretary to the oil and Gas Trust Funds Committee (OGTFC) set up last

year by the Presidency to bring sanity to the Oil and Gas sector in Nigeria by

ensuring the sector is revitalized and put back in its best form. Part of the

committee's mandate is to pay up all debts that the Federal Government of

Nigeria owes its foreign contractors.



In the course of my job which entails carrying out inquiries on foreign

contractors that we are to pay, a notice was brought forward to me on a
contract

awarded to a foreign firm to "SUPPLY PIPELINE PRODUCTS TO THE WARRI, KADUNA AND


PORT-HARCOURT REFINERIES" issued out by the Nigerian National Petroleum

Corporation (NNPC) in 1995 by the then Military regime of Late General Sani

Abacha when the 3 Refineries were undergoing a Turn Around Maintenance (TAM).

After several attempt made to contact this firm to come forward and put up a

claim for its payment there was no response. It was later that a confidant of

mine in the Nigeria National Petroleum (NNPC) whose office handled the contract


award told me that the firm was actually a fictitious one, floated by the then

Late General Sani Abacha to siphon money through the NNPC and with the amount

involved in the contract sum, which is "ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY MILLION FOUR

HUNDRED AND SEVENTY THOUSAND AMERICAN DOLLARS (140,470,000 USD)" I decided to

look for a foreign partner to come forward and put up a claim so that we can
pay

this fund to him as if he was the original executor of the contract, and later

arrange for my share.



This is why I decided to contact you to assist me in achieving this objective.
I

will want you to know that there is no risk involved in this deal especially

with my being the Secretary of the committee and since the funds have been made


available for payment by the Presidency, it will be paid as soon as you apply

for it. All I want you to do is indicate in your reply to this mail that you
can

assist me so that we can then work out the percentage that would be accrued to

you for your assistance. Please only get back to me if you know you are capable


of handling this deal. Money has been set aside and necessary arrangements made


to ensure smooth handling of this transaction at various departments.



I await your response.



Thank You,

Yours Faithful,

Evidence Osakwe
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