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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:

Fraud email example:

From: LIZZY MOMOH <momohlizzy405@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 21:20:35 +0100
Subject: investment proposal


Compliments!

Please don’t be surprise to receive this letter. I decided to contact you
by email due to the urgency of this business at hand. I am Lizzy Momoh, one
of the chief accountants of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
(NNPC). The NNPC are in charge of extracting and selling Nigeria crude oil.
Since the beginning of 2007 there has been increase in the price of crude
oil at the Opec international oil market and all the oil producing
countries has made billions of dollars because of the high price of crude
oil and my country has benefited so much because of the excess crude oil
sales.During our auditing of excess crude oil fund sales, I was opportune
as the chief accountant of the NNPC to discover an excessive crude oil Sum,
amounting into millions of dollars, and the excess amount is in an escrow
account in one of the commercial banks safe, ready to be transfer into a
trustworthy person’s account, we have the plans to come over to your
country to have discussion with you first and know you better.
We will only secure documents that will authenticate you as the foreign
contractor, to achieve this, we process all relevant documents pertinent to
the claim of the funds and effect the payment of the money into your bank
account simultaneously, we shall come over to your country at a smooth
conclusion or wherever you have the account for disbursement agreeably .
Note: There’s no risk involved in this transaction, provided we keep every
details information’s to ourselves only, till success is recorded.

Truly yours,
Lizzy Momoh
pauljulius01@gmail.com

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