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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: Barnard Otti <berotti123a1@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 15:36:12 -0700
Subject: Can you handle this project ?


Attention


I am the head Funds Coordinator Finance/Contract Department of the Nigerian national petroleum corporation (NNPC). My office is also saddled with the responsibility of screening,categorization and prioritization of projects embarked upon by NNPC as well as feasibility studies for selected projects and supervising the projects consultants involved. A breakdown of the fiscal expenditure by this office as at the end of the last fiscal quarter of 2013 indicates that the NNPC paid out a whooping sum of US$936M (Nine Hundred and Thirty Six Million, United States Dollars) to successful contract beneficiaries.The NNPC is now compiling beneficiaries to be paid at this last fiscal quarter of 2014.

I deliberately over-inflated the contract value of the various contracts awarded and I want to use your name as one of the contract, beneficiaries of the contract payment to move the over-inflated sum to your account, I must assure you that I will pepper every paper work to back up this contract payment to you as one of the contractor,beneficiaries of the executed contracts with NNPC now to transfer the said contract sum to your account for us to share at 30% to you. if it will be of your interest, let me know so I can tell you more about this.

My best regards.


Mr. Barnard Otti.




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