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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: "Bank" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <davidthea@bsdmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 09:48:05 +0200
Subject: License

Hello,

I got your details from an online directory and having been motivated by your personal status, I decided to approach you for a possible partnership in a multi-million dollars project in crude oil trading.

The company I work for is the Singapore Refining Company Pte Ltd (SRC). We have urgent need for a 2 million barrel supply of NATIONL OIL COOPERATION OF LIBYA (NOCL) crude oil per month for a total period of 12 month (1year).

Our company vice president Ms. Foo, who is directly in charge of crude oil purchase in our company, has given me with the responsibility of looking for a crude oil licensed agent with the NOCL who we can make this purchase possible. This is so because the NOCL does not sale their product directly to the buyers rather, through their approved licensed agents who acts as their sales agent/middle man between them and their buyers.

My proposal is this, that we (me and you) work together to get you the NOCL license which will authorize you to be a sales agent for the NOCL and subsequently the middle man between our company and NOCL in our company's purchase intentions. The NOCL license can be assigned to your name as an individual license operator or to your company name if you have a company owned by you alone registered with your local authorities.

I will assist you step by step in the process leading to securing the license from the NOCL and thereafter introduce you to our company for the signing of all the sales agreements with the NOCL. As the license holder, the NOCL will remit the sales commissions to your nominated commission receiving Banking coordinates after our company effects the payment of the cargo to the NOCL being the seller.

I will have a take home of 40% of your commissions for my facilitating roles while the remaining 60% commissions goes to you as the license owner.

Please note:
My intentions to profit from this operation should be kept discrete between the both of us. It's against my work ethics to profiteer from our company's dealing with NOCL but I have seen this as a good opportunity for me to save enough money against my imminent retirement. Hence, my decision to source for a partner who can work with me in this regard.

Feel free to ask for clarifications to enable you understand this process further.

Kind regards.
David Thea
Email. davidthea@bsdmail.com

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