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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: "Dr. Folashade Yemi-Esan" <yemenilomo2@gmail.com>
Reply-To: groupban@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 04:19:20 -0800
Subject: I seek your Advise in this regard!!!

From the desk of
Dr. Folashade Yemi-Esan
Permanent secretary
NNPC.

Greetings To You ,

Greetings to you ,it’s a great pleasure to reach you through this
medium ,I decided to contact you after going through your profile
which I got from the Internet in search of a reputable personality to
partner with me, I am privileged to introduce myself to you my name is
Dr. Folashade Yemi-Esan the present permanent secretary in charge of
Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)


In the year 2001,I was appointed by the formal President of
Nigeria;President Olusegun Obasanjo as a special Adviser to the
office of the President on crude oil drilling and contractual related
matters to frequently report to his office on daily activities in this
regard.Therefore , in 2003 a contract was awarded to a Foreign firm to
construct heavy high way link road from makurdi to kaduna which traced
about sixteen major bridges that amount to the tune sum of Six
hundred and thirty five million USA dollars,additional contract was
also awarded to the same construction company to drill & supply crude
oil in barrels to be exported to Asian and Europe
Countries.However,the road construction job was completed in 2005
before the end of formal President Olusegun Obasanjo”s tenure.


Furthermore, all these listed enormous contracts and some others
little types of contracts awarded which time cannot permit me to
mention right now were being handed over to us for supervision, my
late colleague who died before the period of the final fiscal Auditing
(FFA)report to the office of the President who was shot by some
political hoodlums in his house at about 2:00am that miserable
day.Well,before I proceed further I want you to remain calm and
maintain confidentiality in this regard hence this is the topmost
secret of my life,as a senior Advisory officer to the formal
president,I and my late colleague over invoiced the total drilling
cost which originally amount to the total sum of Eight hundred million
USA dollars to the drilling companies, while a total sum of Eight
hundred and Fifteen Million Five hundred thousand USA dollars was
officially approved by the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN)


Conclusively, a total surplus of Fifteen million, Five Hundred dollar
were of course over invoiced by myself and my late colleague which is
currently floating under the suspense account with Central Bank of
Nigeria waiting to be transferred to a foreign account meanwhile as a
civil servant we are not permitted to operate such ambiguous account
for this reason I hereby contact you to partner with me in this
regard.All the necessary document/approval in respect to the above
mention will be legally secured for the smooth and success fullness of
the transfer of the fund to any of your nominated Bank account and I
can assure this transaction will be handled more professional.

Thanks, I wait to hear from you.


Dr. Folashade Yemi-Esan

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