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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. Peter Nelson" <ca1415jjjj@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 10:27:16 +0200
Subject: did you get it


Autar Suechan,

Dear Sir,

I'm extending a business proposition to you having been delighted with your
company profile which i got from the American business directory. My name
is Peter Nelson. I work under procurement department of the National
Petroleum Agency SA[NPA-SA]. This company supplies a brand of crude oil
called Alba Crude Oil and sale to the world market through license mandate
operators/holders. The NPA-SA issues oil lifting license allocations to
individuals/companies who will assist them to market their product and earn
commission in return. The work of the license operator/holder is to locate
the buyers of the crude oil and negotiate a buy/sale transaction on behalf
of the NPA-SA. The license operator earns a $4.00 commission on each barrel
of crude oil sold to the buyer as commissions.

My proposition is that we secure an oil lifting license from the NPA-SA in
your name as the oil license holder while I use my inside connections to
locate the crude oil buyers and ensure that your allocated crude oil is
successfully sold to the buyers. The commissions from the sales will be
paid to you since you are the license owner. This commission we will share
between us 50:50 thereafter.

Please note:
(1) The NPA-SA issues an oil lifting license with a monthly oil allocation
of 500,000 (Five Hundred Thousand) barrels of crude oil to each approved
license operator. This implies that a total quantity of 500,000 barrels of
crude oil will be available to us for sale monthly once we have an oil
lifting license approved to your name. Going by the $4.00 commission per
barrel, we will be earning a gross monthly commission of US$2 million
dollars monthly after the successful sale of our allocated crude oil.

(2) As a staff of NPA-SA, I’m not officially allowed to operate/own an oil
lifting license under the same company. I'm not also allowed to engage in
any out-of-office profit oriented crude oil sale deal under our
organization. This best explains why I seek for a partner who will be the
face of our partnership (owner of the oil license) while I work from the
underground to facilitate the operations in our favor.

Feel free to ask questions for clarification should need be and do get back
to me at your earliest convenience.

Yours faithfully,

Engr. Peter Nelson
Procurement Department
National Petroleum Agency SA

Email: engr.peternelson@engineer.com

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