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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: ": Engr. Abba Mmohamed" <mr_bruce40@flashmail.com>
Reply-To: abba_mmohamed55@terra.com.mx
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:38:45 +0100
Subject: REALL URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL

From: Engr. Abba Mmohamed

Dear Sir,

I send you this business proposal, hoping that we can both
work together based on the details I have been able to get.
This is a highly benefiting
business deal with immense financial benefits. ITS NOT
CHILD'S PLAY. I represent the complete interest of my Boss
in all aspects of these
Business Deal. My Boss have mandated me to contact you.

I am Engineer Abba Mmohamed: the Confidential and Personal
assistant to the Chairman of NIGERIAN PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT
COMPANY [NPDC] a parastatal
company under the NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM COMPANY [NNPC]
We supervise the multinational oil companies operating in my
country Nigeria and also
to develop areas where they operate from.

SOURCE:
In our country oil and gas sector, Each of these oil
companies form a cartel that collaborate to fleece the
nation. And the fleecing began right
from the first signing of the joint venture and petroleum
sharing contracts, between government and this big oil
companies. This joint venture were known to be a fraud. The
NPDC were in this Joint Venture (JV) partnership at
government 60% and 40% oil companies equity share
respectively. This was to determine or know our assets apart
from crude oil, and to also show what the companies and
government were entitled to.This agreement indicate:

[1]Profit per barrel produce
[2]Pricing per barrel
[3]Investment on every barrel produce, and these were also
entitled to an additional per barrel as reserve bonuses.

Unfortunately government had no way of monitoring to confirm
the figures given by these oil companies, it was because of
this knowledge that the present Democratically elected
president of the country decided to revoke the allocation by
past governments. As part of this oversight the Senate
Committee on Petroleum Resources, summoned the NPDC and the
Joint venture partners in the nations oil and gas industry
to justify the 54 Billion Naira about [US$367, US$810 &
US$936 million Respectively] allocated respectively to the 3
JV Partners oil companies in the 2004 Appropriation Bill
under the integrity sub-head.

The 3 JV Partners oil companies were unprepared for the
revelation that hit them. One of the JV partners, PAN OCEAN
OIL COMPANY confounded the
lawmakers by disclaiming the US$810 million allocated to it
under the sub-head. It claimed that it did not need the
money as there was nothing to repair in its flow station
since its equipment were still new.

The revelation confirmed the suspicion of many people that
the upstream sector of the nations oil industry has become a
nest of corruption.

The submission by Pan ocean oil company raises several
questions. Prior to now the JV operators were been accused
of always duplicating expenditure items for both the JV and
production sharing contracts, and also by submitting a
single work program for JV and PSC concessions instead of
separating them.

And this way the government which is my company NIGERIAN
PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT COMPANY [NPDC] a parastatal company
under the NIGERIAN
NATIONAL PETROLEUM COMPANY [NNPC] ends up paying this JV
companies twice for the same item of expenditure.

OUR PROPOSAL TO YOU:

It is this money and some other that are returned
unaccounted for that we want you to help receive into your
custody. Plans has been perfected to
remit this funds to you immediately you indicate interest
that you can help to accommodate the said amount. There is
no molestation nor delay in
transferring the funds into your nominated account.

Sincerity is our watch word for this transaction. Please
indicate by replying to this mail. As our foreign partner
you will be highly compensated on percentage basis after the
whole transaction has been concluded. You must also be
trusted. This is why I contacted you. Your reply will be
appreciated.

BEST REGARDS,
ENGR Abba Mmohamed


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