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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: "Contract Award Committee (NNPC)" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <national.petroleumcorporation@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 11:34:03 +0200
Subject: Mutual Collaboration on Funds transfer

From the desk of the chairman
Contract Award Committee
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation,
N.N.P. C Building, Ikoyi-Lagos.
Website:www.nnpcgroup.com
 
 
                                         
(Mutual Collaboration on Funds transfer}
 
For your urgent attention, I am Engr. Adebayo Ibirogba, chairman of the Contract Award Committee of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) I am mandated by my colleagues to crave your indulgence in assisting us to transfer $35 million US Dollars to any of your reliable account overseas.
The said fund US$ 35million in question resulted from contract over invoiced we perfected when we awarded contract for the construction of OSO Crude Oil Evacuation pipe-line network and Refineries equipments and Petrochemicals equipments. Now that the individual contractors have received their supposed contract funds respectively, we want to transfer the over invoiced fund US$35 million to your nominated account number for immediate sharing/Investments.
 
All the necessary modalities have been perfected with the officials of the Central Bank Nigeria (CBN) for onward transfer of the fund abroad.
 
Thus, if you have the capacity to prosecute this transaction, I advice you send to me the following vital information of yours:-
 
1) your full contact address along with your direct telephone / fax number for easy communication.
2) The account number this fund would be transferred into with the full contact address of the bank.
My colleagues and I have resolved to offer you 30% of the total money.5% would be mapped out to offset all the contingent expenses in the course of the transaction while the remaining 65% will be shared among the concerned officials here.
 
Be informed, that top most secrecy must be observed throughout this transaction for security reasons.
 
I look forward to receiving your quick response via this email address
 
Yours sincerely
 
Engr. Adebayo Ibirogba

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