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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: "REPSOL, Y.P.F" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <info@repsol.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 12:21:56 -0800
Subject: BUSINESS INVESTMENTS PARTNERSHIP

REPSOL, Y.P.F GROUP S.A

Contract Award Management Department

C/ TARRAGONA , 149-157, 08014 BARCELONA

www.repsol.es

From this office of: - REV.JOSE LUIS PERAITA MARIN (MNIM)

INTERNATIONAL AND FINANCIAL CONTROLLER, CONTRACT AWARD DIVISION.



RE: TRANSFER OF €5MILLION EUROS & BUSINESS INVESTMENTS PARTNERSHIP


Attn BENEFICIARY





Compliment of the season and grace to Almighty God that year 2010 will be a year of abundance and prosperity in all aspect of life, Amen. However, I must first solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction; this is by virtue of its nature, as I know this is an unconventional way of introducing a business of such magnitude to you, but if you can read carefully, you will understand the necessity for my action. I am REV.JOSE LUIS PERAITA MARIN, the Financial Controller; Contract Award Division of the Repsol YPF Group, Espana and we are contacting you in respect to a transaction we think you or your company can safely assist us execute based on it high standards. So please treat as urgent as this is not in any a joke and fraudulent proposal. We are trusting you for an understanding and commitment to make this transaction a reality.



Sometime ago, a contract was awarded to two German GMBH Companies by my committee on behalf of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A (BBVA); the total contract value was €20Million Euros, but members of my committee deliberately over invoiced the contract sum by adding extra € 5Million Euros to enable us benefit from the project. The companies have been paid fully the total sum of €20Million Euros since they have completed the project, but we still have the over invoiced sum left in an account with the financial company in charge of funds transfer for Repsol, which we intend to share but not until it is transferred into a foreign account.



To enable us transfer this money into a foreign account, we were able to convince the Board of Directors (BOD) that we left €5Million Euros with the Repsol financial paying banker because the above companies have abandoned the project without finishing the maintenance portion of the contract. On the above reason, the Board of Directors (BOD) has approved that we find another company to finish the maintenance portion of the contract and pay the balance of €5Million Euros to the company in question.



Note that there is no work to be performed by you or your company with Repsol YPF Group, Espana; rather we shall issue a coverage letter stating that your company has performed all the internal maintance work to the Almeria Refinery Espana, as its maintenance only, which does not involve any work outside the building structure itself. If you agree to this proposal, we have agreed that the following funds will be shared per an agreed sharing ratio between us if you are willing to work with us as a team to see this funds transfer safely out of the finance company and release into your bank account in the United Kingdom . Note that we have all the legal and contractual documents to authenticate this transaction and upon your acceptance the original copies of the Repsol Contract Agreement (RCA), Contract Award Certificate (CAC), Contract Completion Certificate (CCC) and Site Inspection Certificate (SIC) will be issued to you to legalize this transaction and to authenticate our 100% risk
free.



I would therefore require the following information from you to begin the claim process (a) Name and Address of Beneficiary and Company (b) Bank Details or you may set up a new bank account immediately to receive this fund, even an empty account can also serve for this purpose. (c) Your personal telephone and fax numbers and email address if any. This information would be used to make formal applications as a matter of procedure for the release of the money from the Finance Company for onward transfer to your nominated account through any of the finance company mode of payment suitable for you. It does not matter if you or your company does contract projects of this nature as described here. All we want, is to see that this money is transfer to a foreign account, which you shall provide bearing in mind that our civil service code of conduct forbids us from running foreign account either offshore or domiciliary.



Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter if you are interested and send the above required information through my private email address: joseluis@repsolypfgroup.com or repsolypfgrupo@representative.com I assure you that this is a 100% risk free project, I wait in anticipation for your cooperation and please reconfirm your interest by sending me an email or fax stating your direct phone, fax number, name and address of your next of kin and your physical mailing address.



Yours Faithfully,



Rev. José Luis Peralta Marin.

Madrid Area, Spain

FINANCIAL CONTROLLER, CONTRACT AWARD DIVISION

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