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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: "Ernest Ejim" <ernestejim@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ernestejim7@outlook.com
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 17:45:01 +0300
Subject: =?utf-8?B?UkVRVUVTVCBGT1IgQlVTSU5FU1MgUkVMQVRJT05TSElQ4oCP?=


Dear Sir,

As the Head of the External Finance , Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC).My office is responsible for payments and receipt
services while My functions comprise the administration of the full cycle
of the life of a contract/instrument, from its signature /issuance to its
full payment.

My recent reconciliation report shows a balance of $42,261,552.90 in one
of our debt service reserves. The fund has been reserved to settle
contracts to unknown beneficiary and has remained unclaimed for more than
15 years from the date it became due for payment.If the account is not
fully paid on or before June 30th, 2015, it will cease to remain due for
payment especially if the on coming National election fails to favor this
administration.

Based on findings, the fund emanated from the over invoiced contracts
executed by a consortium of Multinationals in the oil industry in favor
of the (NNPC) among which were;

1) The expansion of Pipeline network within Nigeria for crude oil and
downstream products distribution and subsequent evacuation - US$2
Billion.
2) Contract for Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) of various Refinery
Revamp Projects in the country -US$82.6 Million.
3) The construction of Storage Tanks for Petroleum Product
(Depots)-US$109 Million.


My colleagues and I are looking for a dependable person to consign the
funds to enable the closing of the account.We have done extensive amount
of works to develop documentation to help implement the payment in order
to prevent the funds from transferring to government as abandonment since
the aforementioned contracts have been fully paid and the projects
officially commissioned.

We are asking you to join us in partnership to achieve this goal. We would
like the opportunity to explore with you, the avenues by which we could
work together to close this transaction.

I will wait for you to contact me urgently, at which time we can
discussion modalities. I hope we can embark on a mutually beneficial
effort to close the deal confidentially.

Thank you for your consideration to this request.

Sincerely,
Ernest Ejim



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