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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: <abdullahi@dubaipetroleum.asia>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 15:59:56 -0000
Subject: Transformation Business investment For You !!!

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 2244
http://www.dubaipetroleum.ae/


I am Ahmed Abdullahi,the Chief Consultant to our company.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 which was not accounted for with our company.That is,after the business deal, we have some amount of money left with us which we agreed to disburse within us after checks and balances with our company finance department.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 our company to easily release the fund to you.I am going to do this by presenting you to our company(Dubai Petroleum Establishment) as one of the Benefic
iaries of the oil busines


I have decided to move this fund(profit) out of here to a secure place/country where we could be in control of the fund and start investing with it.(the amount is 25 million dollars(twenty five million US dollars)therefore I as the chief consultant in this business deal hereby wish to solicit for your assistance in receiving this fund in your country from our company as our Partner.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 amount not accounted for when we did our checks and balances and give comprehensive report of the business deal to our company,we need you to help us receive it and safeguard it.

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 any 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's 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 knows 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 i will not like our company know about it until i move this cash out of here to your custody.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 without betr
ayal.


So, I need your trust and seriousness towards this deal as am waiting to hearing from you.Furnish me your personal details(Names, Phone, Address,country, age/occupation)


Best Regards,
Ahmed Abdullahi,
Senior Consultant
contact: ahmed@dubaipetroleum.asia

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