419 scam: "edward allen"<edwardallen5@yandex.com> Seeking Your Partnership

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "you will be entitled to 30%" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
- "nigeria national petroleum corporation" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +2348073400968 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "edward allen" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <edwardallen4@yandex.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 06:17:52 -0700
Subject: Seeking Your Partnership

*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro*
from edward allen,

i am a member of the federal government of nigeria contract award and monitoring committee in nigeria national petroleum corporation (nnpc) sometime ago;my committee awarded a contract to a foreign firm in nnpc.this contract was over invoiced to the tune of us$16.5m u.s.dollars. this was done deliberately the over invoicing was a deal by my committee to benefit from the project.we now want to transfer this money, which is in a suspense account with nnpc in to any overseas account which we expected you to provide for us .

share: - for providing the account where we shall remit the money into, you will be entitled to 30% of the money.60% will be for me and my partners while 10% has been mapped out from the sum to cover any expenses that may incurred by us during the course of this transfer, both locally and international expensive.to commerce this deal therefore, i would required the following:

1. your company's name or personal, address, tel & fax numbers.

the above information would be used to make formal applications as a matter of procedure for the release of the money and onward transfer to your account. it does not matter whether or not your company does contract of this nature the assumption is that your company won the major contract and subcontracted it out to other companies.

we have strong reliable connections and contacts at the central bank of nigeria as well as the federal ministry of finance and we have no doubt that all the money will be released and transferred if we get the necessary foreign partner to assist us in this deal. therefore, when the business is successfully concluded we shall through our same connections withdraw all documents used from all the concerned government ministries for 100% security.

we are ordinary civil servants and we will not want to miss this once in a life time opportunity to get rich.i want this money to be transferred to an oversea account you will provide for us, before this present democratic government starts auditing all federal owned ministries. please contact me immediately through my telephone number +234 807 3400 968 if interested in this deal.

i wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.

yours faithfully,

edward allen.

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