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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: "Patrick Tiko" <patrickt2067@w.cn>
Reply-To: patrickt2010@w.cn
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:03:44 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: Hello

Hello,

I choose to reach you through e-mail, as it is the fastest medium
ofcommunication irrespective of the fact that it has been greatly abused.
I deem it necessary to introduce you to alucrative business
opportunity.I'm

talking of crude oil trading! This is considered as the most legitimate
andfastest money making machinery anyone can setup.

A crude oil "lifting license" gives the owner the mandate of the National

Oil Company (Suppliers of the crudeoil), to locate crude oil buyers and
arrange a buy/sale crude oiltransaction between the oil company and
thecrude oil buyers. The "lifting license" syndrome came into place
because the

national oil company does not deal directly with the buyers of the crude
oil rather; they prefer to issueoil "lifting license allocations" to
individuals/companies to assist them to market the crude oil which they

produce. Anyone that owns an lifting license" from the local National Oil
Company is entitle d to a $2.00commission from the oil company on each
barrel of crude sold to the buyer and another $1. 00 commission from

the buyer. In total, oil lifting license owners receives a $3.00
commission on each barrel of crude sold bythe oil company. Please note
that the commission rates of $2.00 and $1.00 normally increases in times
of

crude oil scarcity.

The smallest license allocation/quantity one can procure from t he
NationalOil Company is for the sale of 500,000 barrels of crude
monthly/per transaction. This implies that 500,000 barrels of crude oil
will be

assigned to the license owner for sale per month. This allocation size
willearn the license owner about ($3.00 multiply by 500,000 barrels) which
is $1.5 million gross commissionsmonthly. If one is lucky to secure

a bigger allocation that means you will be earning more commissions
monthly.These commissions will be calculated and paid to the license at
the end of the sales transaction.

Incase you decide to invest in this money spinning project; I will

personally reveal to you a well packaged procedure to acquire an oil
lifting license. I will personally assist you tolocate the buyers of the
crude oil and facilitate the sales transactions for you while the
resulting

commissions will be wired into your overseas nominated banking
co-ordinates as the license owner. You need a "selleragent" to assist you
to sale the crude since you are alien to this business and do not know the
buyers for

the crude oil and al so because

you are not locally resident here.

Feel free to ask for clarifications.

Engr.Patrick Tiko


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