419 scam: Engr Funsho William Kapulokun <yennguyen@vus-etsc.edu.vn> RE: PROMPT INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
- "abuja" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- nnpc006@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <nnpc006@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 19:19:40 -0800
Subject: RE: PROMPT INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP

FROM THE DESK OF
Engr Funsho William Kapulokun
NNPC TOWERS, CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT,
HERBERT MACAULAY WAY,
P.M.B.190,GARKI -ABUJA.

MY DEAR FRIEND,

RE: PROMPT INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP

I am Engr Funsho William Kapulokun, Manager Accounts/Audit Department Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). We have just completed audited exercise of our establishment covering a period of 10 years between 2004 and the financial year ended 2014. We discovered that within the period under review certain executed contracts were manipulated by the contract awarding department through inflated contract by over - invoicing.

Hence, we have discovered a floating fund in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Escrow account in London with face value of US$110,000,000.00. This fund emanated from a contract originally executed by MR. YOSHIMICHI YAMASHITA, 1-35-3-417, NARIMASU, ITABASHI-KU, TOKYO, JAPAN.The contract was awarded in the year2006 for Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) of Port Harcourt and Kaduna Refineries to the aforementioned contractor at the tune of US$290,000,000.00. However, the awarding officers inflated the contract to US$400,000,000.00 and were not able to effectively transfer the said floating fund valued at US$110,000,000.00.

In the light of this development, I and my audit committee members has agreed to solicit for investment partnership with any interested foreigner that will stand as the beneficiary designate to claim the US$110,000,000.00. We want our 65% share of the money to be invested in Gold Mining Field in South Africa and also in Diamond Mining Basin in Lesotho. Please, if you have a good investment opportunity that has a high return on profit, kindly suggest for our consideration. You will have 30% share and 5% will be set aside to cover all expenses incurred, aside your share you will be our investment manager in the venture. The process is free of any risk and will be covered with relevant documentary prove. Below are the contract details: -

1) CONTRACT SPECIFICATION: TURN AROUND MAINTENANCE (TAM)
2) CONTRACT SITE: PORT HARCOURT AND KADUNA REFINERIES
3) CONTRACT NUMBER: 24/NNPC/PED/PH-KD/2009
4) CONTRACT AMOUNT: US$110MILLION

I will want your urgent consent on the proposal to enable us commence. You should send the following details, your full contact address, receiving bank information, personal telephone mobile and fax numbers and an identification item. We should maintain extreme confidentiality in the process. Please be advice that you should respond through my email as containing herein: nnpc006@gmail.com, also endeavour to call me on my contact telephone number below. I wish you the best of luck.

Regards,

Engr Funsho William Kapulokun
MANAGER,ACCOUNTS/AUDIT DEPARTMENT (NNPC)
HEADQQUARTERS, ABUJA -NIGERIA

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