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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: "Nigerian National Petroleum" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <arthurjcute1@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 10:40:07 +0100
Subject: Mutual Benefit

From: The desk of the chairman
Contract Award Committee
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
  N.N.P. C Building, Abuja, Nigeria.
 
   Good Day
   Appeal for Business Assistance for Mutual Benefit
  
 
I am Engr. Arthur Johnson, chairman of the Contract Award Committee of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). I am mandated by my colleagues to crave your indulgence in assisting us to transfer US$35 million  to any of your reliable account overseas. This fund accrued from an over invoiced contract amount that we perfected when we awarded contract for the construction of OSO
Crude Oil Evacuation pipeline network and Refineries equipments and Petrochemicals equipments, which was finally awarded at the total cost of US$115Million.
 
Now that the original foreign contractors have received their supposed contract funds of US$80Million respectively, I and my colleagues have finally decided that we seek the assistance of a foreign personnel, whose account we can use to move the over-invoiced amount of US$35Million as we perfectly planned earlier. All the necessary modalities have been perfected
with the officials of the Central Bank Nigeria (CBN) for onward  transfer of the fund abroad, and we can assure you that the deal is 100% Risk-free but must be treated with utmost secrecy until funds arrive in your account.
 
If you have the capacity to assist us to actualize this transaction, I advise you to send to me the following vital information of yours: - 1.Full  name of your bank 2.The bank address of your bank; 3.The bank account number and other receiving details.  4. Your contact telephone number or mobile number.  5. The Name of account holder or beneficiary. My colleagues and I have resolved to offer you 30% of the total
money,  5% will be mapped out to offset all the contingent expenses in  the course of the transaction, while the remaining 65% will be shared
amongst my colleagues and I. Be informed that topmost secrecy must be observed throughout this  transaction for security reasons, as we expect that the transfer will be actualized in your account          within 10working days upon receipt of your account details. 
 
I look forward to receiving your quick response.
 
Yours sincerely,                                                                                                                                                 
Arthur Johnson

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