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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: "Mr. Richard Po" <prueba@saitel.ec>
Reply-To: minifo@outlook.com
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 05:52:46 -0500
Subject: CONTRACT INVESTMENT




Dear Sir,

I am a member of the Government of Cambodia Contract Award and Monitoring
Committee in the Cambodian National Petroleum Authority) (CNPA).
Sometime ago, a contract was awarded to a foreign firm in (CNPA) by my
Committee.

This contract was over invoiced to the tune of US$200,000,000.00 (Two
Hundred Million United States Dollars Only.)

This was done deliberately. The over-invoicing was a deal by my committee
to benefit from the project. We now want to transfer this money which is
in a suspense Account with NNPC (CNPA) any Overseas Account which we
expect you to provide for us.
opelomega52: SHARE: - For providing the account where we shall remit the
money into, you will be entitled to 30% of the money,60% will be for me
and my partners while 10% has been mapped out from the total sum to cover
any expenses that may be incurred by us during the course of this
transfer, both locally and international expenses.

We want to invest our share of this money into a real estate project which
you will handle for us in a period of seven years.

Thanks.


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