419 scam: NNPC <rostov@aportex.org> Re:Business Partnership

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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.

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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!

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "abuja" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +2348072106506 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- nnpcdrajiboye@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: NNPC <rostov@aportex.org>
Reply-To: nnpcdrajiboye@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 16:53:32 -0400
Subject: Re:Business Partnership

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Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Zonal Office
Corporate Headquarters
NNPC Towers, Central Business District,
Herbert Macaulay Way,
P.M.B. 190, Garki, Abuja.
TEL: +234-80-7210-6506
Email:nnpcdrajiboye@gmail.com
Our ref:NNPC/FRN/AGF/ABJ/COA/07/17

Re:Business Partnership
Dear:

This is to invite you to freely participate in a business venture on
behalf of my partners and I. We especially need you to act as the chief
beneficiary of a contract sum worth $25M Million United States Dollars
in Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC).

For your benefit of doubt[ my partners] are management officials in the
board team of the above named government parastatal. In addition, the
are members of the internal audit review panel set up to reconcile all
bonifide contract debts being owed to foreigners by the government of
Nigeria. In the course of there auditing, we came across the said sum of
$25M floating in the ministry escrow account as an accrued debt payable
to a yet UN-identified contractor since 2016. On thorough examination,it
was discovered that the $25M was a debt brilliantly created by the
former Director General in favor of a company that she was about to
incorporate locally here with the help of a foreign partner.

My partners made consultations with the former Director General and
eventually struck an agreement with her.The master plan she created
remains the same.The plan is to make you the chief beneficiary to the
$25M by way of advancing you/your company as the real contractor to whom
the sum is owed by the Ministry for a project executed between
2004/2006.As a matter of fact,all the modalities needed to achieve this
has already been perfected. The overall plan is 100% foolproof and will
be carried out legally in every aspect of the transaction.

Specifically,your duty will be to act in correspondence(via
E-mails,Faxes & Telephone)- with the local Ministry of Finance as well
as the Apex Bank authorities which I'm currently working with; until
your total claims are verified,approved and the money paid into your
advised bank account.

Whereas we would like to maintain our full confidentiality for now, we
shall however provide you with more details as to the master plan and
the entire time frames involved. We will do so when you indicate your
interest to become a partner with us.

Looking forward to a cordial business partnership with you.
Faithfully yours,

Waiting for your reply

Dr R.O. Ajiboye
General Manager Operations
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC)

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