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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: "NAS" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <edknas@yahoo.de>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 09:47:48 -0500
Subject: Investment in Korea (Strictly for the CEO/President)

Sir,
I am Dr. E.N. Dan-Kano; the Head of the Directorate of Petroleum and Pipeline Marketing (DPPM), Nigeria. The DPPM is an agency of the Nigerian government with exclusive oversight on the international trade of Nigeria's Petroleum. This is why we also maintain a permanent presence here in the London International Petroleum Exchange (IPE).

I have US$23.8Million that I need your assistance and coordination to relocate it into the safety of your account.
I accumulated the fund by allocation of excess petroleum to foreign consumers. In other words, the quantities of actual supplies were under-invoiced.
But unfortunately for me; all payments from our international sales go straight into our (DPPM) account officially and strategically known as the National Consolidated Account.
As it is and the director of the DPPM; I am the custodian and sole signatory of this account.

Now I am planning to resign to enable me pursue my political/governorship ambition; this is why I must sign out this US$23.8million from our account without delay.

But as you can understand; I can not just withdraw the fund. I must document and prove the reason for its withdrawal or payout.
This is the reason I am making contact with you today. I want to have the US$23.8million documented, processed and paid out to you as a legal and due contract payment for a contract job you did for the DPPM some few years ago. Your occupation or vocation is not important.

I have reliable sources in our government offices that are on stand-by to issue the needed documents which are assured to be authentic and genuine contract documents. But they would be backdated to ensure no questions are asked during the processing and transfer of this fund into your account anywhere in the world.
The documents would all reflect in government's records and archives, though I would extract and delete all the documents and records once the transfer of the fund is completed.
The payment and its transfer would meet all international standards and rules, as it would be supported with governments issued documents and orders.

Upon conclusion; you would retain 10% of the fund, and the remaining 90% would be mine though I intend to invest a sizeable part of it in Real Estate and Stock/shares in your country, under your tutelage and oversight.

I guarantee your safety as this business does not expose you to any kind of risks. Most importantly, your presence would not be required for any kind of interview or scrutiny.

Send me an email; let us discuss further and move concerted action to achieve the project without delay. It is expected to be successfully completed within 10 days from the date I file formal pre-authorized debit (PAD) order with the bank.

Yours sincerely,
Dr. E.N. Dan-Kano
Email: bb40s@voila.fr
OR edknas@yahoo.de

DPPM /International Petroleum Exchange (IPE)
Milton Gate, 60 Chiswell Street,
London, United Kingdom
EC1Y 4SA
7/01/2015

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