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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: "Keith Mercer" <tifany.hauskiins.blount@gmail.com>
Reply-To: tifany.hauskins.blount@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 03:41:33 +0700
Subject: RE: Crude Oil Sales Partnership.




Hello,
RE: Crude Oil Sales Partnership.

This letter is based on negotiating a partnership in a crude oil sales
project with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC). This
project will involve registering your name with the foreign contractor's
unit of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC); re-assign an
already existing crude oil lifting/sales license to your name and act as
representatives of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC) in
selling of crude oil to the end buyers.

This lifting license which I propose that we re-assign to your name (my
partner) was formerly allocated to one Mr. David Russell by the (NNPC) in
2011 with 5 years validity. The license is for the sale of 60 Million
Barrels of Bonny light Crude Oil (BLCO)] for a total period of 5 years.
This allows the license owner to lift and sale a maximum of 1 Million
barrels of Bonny light Crude Oil (BLCO) per transaction/shipment.

A sale of 1 barrel of Bonny light Crude Oil (BLCO) attracts a US$2.00
commissions from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC) and
another US$1.00 discount as commission from the end buyers of the Bonny
light Crude Oil (BLCO). For a sale of 1 barrel of Bonny light Crude Oil
(BLCO), the license owner earns a total commission of U$3.00. Let's say
the prize of the Bonny light Crude Oil (BLCO) is $40.00 per barrel. A
lifting license holder will receive the product from the (NNPC) at $38.00
per barrel and sell to the end buyers on the normal market prize of $40.00
per barrel thereby making a commission of $2.00 on each barrel of crude
sold. Also being able to locate the final buyers entitles your company to
a US$1.00 discount from the discount given to the end buyer as "mandates".

A total sale of the 1 million barrels of the crude oil per month at a
US$2.00 discount from local petroleum agency sums up to US$2 million
commission per month. And another US$1.00 discount from the end buyer
comes to US$1 million per month thereby making a total commission of US$3
million monthly.

My obligation in this venture is to arrange for the lifting and sale of
the crude oil that will be allocated to you (my partner) after the
successful re-assignment of Mr. David Russell's lifting license to your
name (my partner). I have numerous buyers for this crude oil and also have
the connections needed to sale the crude oil. I will also use my
connections in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC) to make
sure that our commissions from the sale are deposited into your bank
account immediately after the sale is completed. Both the cost to
re-assign this lifting license to your name (my partner) and the
commissions from the sales will be shared equally between us as equity
partners.

I await your immediate response,

Your proposed partner,

Thanks,
Engr. Mercer K. Franklin



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