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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: FRANKYLN JOHNSON <frankjonson2007@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 14:50:25 +0100
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL MESSAGE GET BACK TO ME

Dear Sirs/Madam ,

Good day. I know this mail will come to you as a surprise but I need
to contact you because of the urgency and confidentiality of this
business transaction. I am Chief Account officer of the Nigerian
National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC).

I have a deal here in my office I need a foreign partner to execute
with me. I and my colleague over invoiced a contract payment valued
US$50million.

We awarded contracts for the supply and maintenance of all the oil pipelines
and oil drilling equipments for the nation oil wells to some foreign
contractors valued US$103billion, which we over invoiced US$50million
addition to the total contract sum.

Now as a matter of fact, most of the contractors have been paid and
the remaining contractor’s payments are under process to be paid to
them. With that, I and my colleague have decided to include you among
these remaining
contractors to process the sum of the US$50Million in your company or
in your name to claim it for our mutual benefit.

So i am now contacting you to present you as the sub-contractor who
has this amount of US$50million to be paid for the supply of heavy oil
drilling equipments used in recent overhauling of the refineries.

I will advice you furnish me with your personal information including
your personal cell phone number and the name of your company with
address to enable me register it with our cooperate affairs commission
in charge of allied and companies registration as an indigenous
company.

It is mandatory that any foreign company must be registered in this
country. Also with your acceptance to execute this business with me, I
need to be sure of your confidentiality towards the conclusion of
this deal, you will be
given 30% of the total amount, 5% map out for re-fund of expenses
incur by any of the parties,while I and my colleague will take 65%
once the money gets into your company account in your country.

Also with my position here, I can officially arrange with you to be
lifting 2 or 4million barrels of Crude Oil per month by getting a year
or two years crude Oil allocation contract in your name and company
name whether you are here or not.

With this we can make more money from the oil lifting here in Nigeria.
I will detail you more on this once I get your response.

Thank you and hope to hear from you as soon as possible. Send me your
cell phone number to call you for more
details.

Get back to me.

Best Regards.

Engnr.Frank Johnson
Chief Account Officer (N.N.P.C)

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