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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: "Ahmed Abdullahi" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <b27ahmed@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 06:09:47 -0800
Subject: Very Real: Reply Immediately If You Can Handle This!!

Dubai Petroleum Establishment (Consultant),    
D 90, 1st Interchange,
Shaikh Zayed Rd, Al Safa Street,
Next to Al Khazzan Park,Dubai
United Arab Emirates
Phone:+971 4 343 2222
http://www.dubaipetroleum.ae/
 
 
 
Dear Friend,
 
 
We (Dubai Petroleum Establishment company consultant/disposing department) have just concluded deal of disposing millions of barrels of crude oil with Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) operating in Iraq licensed by Ministry of Oil in Baghdad .(Contract Executed) .There is an over profit made through over invoice which was not accounted for with our company,but was deposited in the bank,and as it stands now,non of us(working in this company) can be able to use this money here in Dubai or move it out without having a partner abroad who will partner with us to receive the fund as the Beneficiary which we are going to inform our company authority for easy transferring of the fund to you.This was the reason why i contacted you for you to help us and receive this fund in your country.Am due for retirement and wish to come over to your country to invest with this fund as soon as you receive it as my partner.
 
 
I as the chief consultant in this business deal have therefore decided to move this fund(profit) out here to a secure place where we can handle it and start investing with it.(the amount is 25 million dollars(twenty five million US dollars).Therefore I as the chief consultant and my partners hereby wish to cooperate with you as we want a PARTNERSHIP IN INVESTMENT,wishing you to be our partner in receiving the fund in your country.You will be rewarded with 25% of the total sum for helping us to receive and safeguard this fund.This is a legitimate business deal and all the parties involved have received their payment,but due to the fact that we have this profit(over invoiced) not accounted for,we need you to help us receive it and safeguard it.We are going to do this by presenting you to our company as one of the Beneficiaries of the oil business who have not received your own money and with this idea,it will be easy for us to legitimately move the fund to you.
 
For security reasons,we are not going to transfer this fund through bank to bank.We shall make arrangement with the Company's(Dubai Oil Company) Fund Movement Department to deliver this fund cash to you in your contact home address for you to secure the fund and once you receive it,i shall come over immediately for the disbursement of the fund according to our agreed percentage. I want to invest in your company or any other companies that deals on areas like Energy,Hotels,Real Estate,IT Company,or any other areas of BUSINESS which you can advise that is lucrative in your country where we can make good profit.I will have you as my partner in the investment
 
I shall discuss with you more as soon as i receive your reply indicating your full interest.But please if you are not capable of handling this amount of money involved,you should not bother replying this mail.As this is a genuine and legal transaction which we shall embark on without the breach of my country's laws and your local laws.I will also involve the services of an Attorney who will help us legally to transact this deal with all the legal documents involved.
 
Above is the full address/phone number and our company website here in Dubai,but i advise you not to contact our company directly regarding to this deal for security reasons because non of our company directors know about this fund that we are moving out of here.This is a deal that demands high level of confidentiality until we move this fund to you.Do not involve third party to this deal please. We are few in this company that is involved in this deal,so we shall not like our company know about it until we move this cash out of here.So kindly reply to me now through this my private email so i could inform you how we proceed. I know you will be wondering how i got your email and name,we do not wish to deal with someone close to any of us to avoid betrayal,that was why i searched through trusted business directory on net and get your email as a trusted person,so i choose to contact you through email for us to have trust on each other and get this deal done withou! t betrayal of any kind.So,i need y
 
 
Best Regards,
 
Ahmed Abdullahi,
Senior Consultant

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