419 scam: "Mr.Collins Laah Yakubu"<adcmdnnpc@gmail.com> Investment Proposal.......!!!!

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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:

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:
- "huge sum of money" (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)
- "i will advice you " (this email uses bad English)
- "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 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.
- mrcollinsyakubu1985@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Collins Laah Yakubu" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrcollinsyakubu1985@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 22:48:49 -0700
Subject: Investment Proposal.......!!!!

Hello,

I am Mr.Collins Yakubu, the son of the former GMD Of NNPC, Engr. Andrew Laah Yakubu.

My main purpose of sending this mail to you is because of the present problem my father is facing with EFCC Agents that Raided our Home and recently discovered $9.8m which was part of the money he kept at home for a project he planned to execute; but due to he was being monitored by those idle people of which their work is to give information to EFCC or other government agencies because this government agencies promised to give who so ever that give them information of any retired civil servant who has a huge sum of money in his account either locally or internationally will be rewarded with 10% of whatever amount they come up with as a compensation to the information. Like my father's case now, the person who reported him is one of our staff who works in our filling station here in Abuja because of the 10% EFCC promised in the news paper to those informants who will update the agents.

once they find out that you and your family are living in wealth, so they must find a way to conspire against you, in order for them to confisicate what you have suffered for good number of years while you are under the governmental administration.

As a matter of urgency, i will advice you to go through this site below and you will believe me on what my father is going through now.

www.vanguardngr.com › News
Update: How EFCC recovered $9.8m from Yakubu, Ex-NNPC GMD ...

With all due respect, I will need your immediate assistance to make sure that the rest of my father's money in abroad will not be traced by the EFCC agent. So if you are interested in assisting me because of my father's condition facing trial with the EFCC which i don't know when the case will be over after they seized the $9.8m which they recovered in my family house; so that i will tell you the name of the security company where the money is presently and how much is lodged abroad.

Therefore i will need your full name and your cellphone number(i.e if you have one) before i will give you my cellphone number to enable us discuss more on this issue over the phone because it is more confidential.

I await your immediate response towards this, before going into further discussion with you about this issue, and you must promise me that you are not an agent and will not also betray me as one of the staff working in my father's mega filling station did.

Regards

Mr.Collins Laah Yakubu
Private:mrcollinsyakubu1985@gmail.com

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