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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: "Andrew Yakubu "<Andy@socarenerji.org>
Reply-To: imandrewyakubu@gmail.com
Date: 30 Oct 2017 11:22:28 -0700
Subject: Re:Project

Dear Sir,

My name is Andrew Yakubu the former branch manager of Socar
Enerji Turkey, I know this message may come to you as a surprise;
I came to know you from a reliable source during my research for
a trustworthy overseas firms who can partner with us in this
project.

Now let me brief you a bit, during my last audit for Last year, I
came across this contract file belonging to a foreign firm who
executed a contract with the Gazprom via Socar Enerji to supply
engineering pipe lines at the Turkish refinery at the tune of 60
million USD and at the completion the company was paid 30 million
Usd as part payment while the balance are still yet to be paid
then.

Unfortunately the firm left the shores of Turkey unpaid since
1987 as a result of the country economic meltdown and change of
government, right now as am talking to you the current head of
state Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan in his official speech have ordered
that all the foreign contractors debts should be settled starting
from 1985 till date. this was done to encourage the contractors
of the ongoing TurkStream gas pipeline, which is currently under
construction.

http://www.gazprom.com/about/production/projects/deposits/turkey/

Based on this development I and my 3 colleagues has in our
meeting agreed to use this as a golden opportunity to claim this
balance of 30 million and I was mandated to scouts for a big
foreign firm who we will use the company letter headed papers to
secure the necessary approvals for immediate release of the fund
as all our home work has been solidly made both at the federal
ministry of finance and Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey,
note that this deal is 100% risk free. And the sharing ratio is
like this: 30% for you, 65%for us while 5%will be for whatever
expenses incurred during the process if any.

All we need from you to do now in order for us to start without
further delays is for you take off 4 copies of your company
letter heads, 4 copies of your proforma invoice, Your Company’s
bank account details, All should be blank.


Regards

Andrew Yakubu.

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