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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: CRUDE OIL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY <"www."@abeam.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: CRUDE OIL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY <carsdealer.compan.allmodels@outlook.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 06:22:34 +0900 (JST)
Subject: CRUDE OIL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY

Hi How Are you
I has a good business crude oil from Africa I found it from Africa they will be supplying crude oil to me, I found it from the government of African they will start

supplying the crude oil when I open a company. So what I'm trying now is to build a big company at where I can do the business but I don't know the best location to

stay and do the business as of now, the government of USA and other agencies has done research for the crude oil and found out that it's the best crude oil, so I have

to improve it and if you want to join me to do the business with me then you get back to me so that we can discuss about it. I have one man who also want to do the

business with me together his name is David, that business earns alot of money, we will have a shareholders , so if you are interested in this business then we will

have a to discuss about it
I will also let our membership who is Mr David to know. I suggested if we can use these names here :

Oil company name? Yes it's good

CRUDE OIL IMPORTS, INC.

Then the other station Gas Station will be

ADCO GAS? Yes it's also good

Hope you know we are doing this business together me and you with another of my friend David so we are 3 to do the crude oil business, and we need to look try to

search for a good location where we can build company and then start the business because it earns a lot of money because it's as the best oil as other agencies has

checked in and out and see its the best crude oil here, and we need to improve it so that it will be popular. And also i want to let you know how I found this business

Just One of my friend from Africa he lives here in the US before, and he just let me know about the crude oil which their government supplies, so tried contacted the

government and talk about it with them, and we concluded that they will be supplying crude oil to h
ere in USA. And they agreed, and delivered the small quantity to test it,and I take the crude oil to many legal agencies and they confirm its very nice, looks like the

best crude oil here.

I had tankers. The money that is suppose to be paid to get the quantity of crude oil to use get some tankers of crude oil $7.5million dollars and I have paid the

deposit of $3million dollars. It still remain the balance of $4.5million dollars to pay and get those tankers of crude oil.

Me and you with David is the owner of the crude oil business from now okay, hope it's OK, because you can make a lot of money from there because it's a great business,

so let's talk about what to do about money and and get those tankers here and start up the business.
Check your email right now
have a great day
William Rodriguez

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