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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Engr Des" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <engrdes08@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 17:53:27 -0000
Subject: Good day Sir / Madam,

Good day Sir / Madam,

I greet you with warmregards. I work for Malaysia Oil Refinery Sdn Bhd Company as a procurementsupervisor; Malaysia Oil Refinery Sdn Bhd is an Oil refining Company situatedin South East Asia. On my desk is a mandate to arrange for Crude Oil purchasefrom the National Oil Corporation (NOC), from the state of Libya for up to2,000,000 barrels on a monthly basis for 12 calendar months.

The reason for myreaching out to you is because I am in the process of establishing abroker/mediator or a middle man structure to mediate between the 2 partiesinvolved (our Company and the Company in Libya) before the contract is signed.You may be wondering why I cannot do it myself.

The honest fact is that as anemployee working for this company, it is against our company's operationalethics/policy for an employee to be involved or profit in any financialdealings with our Company hence I am looking for a trustworthy person outsidemy work circle in order to maintain a discreet profile.

I wish to extend thispartnership to you my friend to build a broker/mediator or a middle manstructure with you while I work from the background to guide you. Our companypays between $4 per barrel as the commission/brokerage amount so if the targetof 2Million barrels is met monthly we stand to share $4Million - $6Million every month for 12 months.
If you are interested in this transaction, please reply back to my email address ( ) for further details.

Regards,
Engr Des.
Procurement Supervisor
Crude Oil & ProductsTrading Division
Malaysia oil RefinerySdn Bhd
E-mail: engrdes08@gmail.com

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