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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: "dr. rasheed ." <dr.rasheed.nnpc@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2016 10:56:49 -0700
Subject: RE: UNCLAIMED CONTRACT SUM OF $11.5M /NNPC/FGN/FMF/CBN

Senior Officer/Executive Director,
Nigeria National Petroleum Company
Corporate Headquarters: # NNPC House,
Victoria, Island, Lagos,
Nigeria.

RE: UNCLAIMED CONTRACT SUM OF $11.5M /NNPC/FGN/FMF/CBN/B2517/9 NIGERIA
NATIONAL PETROLEUM COMPANY (NNPC)


Hello Friend,

Firstly, I must solicit your strictest confidentiality in this Transaction.
This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL and TOP
SECRET. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make anyone
apprehensive and worried.

I am Dr. D. B. Rasheed, a senior official in the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). My idea of contacting you are as followed:-
During the last military regime here in Nigeria, West Africa, the committee
awarded a contract of US$400,000,000.00 (Four Hundred Million United States
Dollars) to five construction firms on behalf of the Petroleum Ministry for
the supply, construction and installation of Oil Pipeline from Warri to
Port Harcourt.

This was the description of the contract number:- NPC/FGN/FMF/CBN/B2517/99
AND THE AWARD OF CONTRACT AND PURPOSE OF PAYMENT IS: "SUPPLY OF 480,000
MONAX AXIAL AND ERECTION OF SYSTEM OPTIMIZATION SUPER POLYPROLENE, 240,000
BPSD FOR PLANT 'A' TO 'C' AND COMPUTERIZATION AND OMMISSIONING OF NIGERIAN
NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION (NNPC) IN PORT-HARCOURT/KADUNA REFINERY.

With my position in NNPC as the chairman in charge of Contracts Award and
payment Approvals, I decided to deliberately over-inflate the contract
invoice making the contract sum US$411,500,000.00 Million instead of
US$400,000,000.00, with an intention of claiming the remaining balance sum
of US$11,5M.The Federal Government of Nigeria has since approved the sum of
US$411,500,000.00 Million, which the sum of US$400,000,000.00 have also
been paid to the foreign contractors concerned as contract Entitlements for
the contract done.


Now US$11,5M was now left in the bank with the NNPC bank account in China.
As a civil servant and still in service, I am not permitted by law to own
or operate foreign account, which makes it impossible for me to reap this
opportunity by myself. To complete the transaction I need to have a foreign
partnership,hence my contacting you for your assistance as an overseas
partner into whose account I would transfer the sum of ($61.5 M).
Consequently, I have decided to give you 40% from the total sum US$61.5 M.


In conclusion, such opportunity comes but once in a lifetime, I am a man of
status, honor, reputation and integrity and I will not indulge myself into
anything shady as this transaction is 100% legitimate and legal. I shall
bring to you the complete details including the bank information. Your
urgent response will be highly appreciated as I am already behind schedule
for this financial quarter.

I REQUIRE BELOW THESE INFORMATION FROM YOU TO SET-UP THE RECLAIMING
CONTRACT FILE


YOUR FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
TELEPHONE:
AGE:
SEX:
OCCUPATION:

Thanks for your anticipated co-operation.
Dr. D. B. Rasheed
Senior Officer (NNPC).

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