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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: "Singapore Refining Company Pte Ltd (SRC)" <Shanna@sodetel.net.lb>
Reply-To: <richardseng69@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 20:09:24 +0300
Subject: Proposition Singapore Refining Company Pte Ltd (SRC)




Attention: MD/CEO,

RE: Singapore Refining Company Pte Ltd (SRC)

My name is Richard Seng, I got your details from an on-line 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 NATIONAL OIL COOPERATION OF LIBYA (NOCL) crude oil per month for a
total period of 12 month (1 year).

Our company vice president Ms. Foo, who is directly in charge of crude
oil purchase in our company, has given me 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 nominate
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.
Mr. Richard Seng

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