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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: "anna.mapco0@gmail.com" <khalilullahfrozi1977@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021 16:57:07 +0100
Subject: PAY-COMMISSION FUNDS AND INVESTMENT..

to you, knowing how the internet has been used these days by dishonest
persons. l am conscious that this is certainly not a preferable way of
approach to foster a relationship of trust but because of the circumstances
and urgency surrounding this claim l decided to reach you via this medium
to help secure the funds left behind by a crude oil sales license owner, to
avoid it being confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Ministry of
Petroleum and Natural Resources of Sao Tome and Principe.I am a member of
staff of the National Petroleum Agency (NPA) of Sao Tome and Principe. I
assisted a foreigner with the registration of a crude sales License in my
country 2009 and after operating it for about four and half years he was
ill and later confirmed that he passed on.The NPA confirmed a payment of
about $4.3 Million United States Dollars as pay-out commission for the
crude License on June 11th 2010. Unfortunately, he is not alive to receive
his pay-out commission and all effort to contact his next of kin has proved
unsuccessful. I decided to reach you, to present you as the beneficiary to
the late owner's commission since I have information to do so.Once
presented as the beneficiary of the company, we shall earn the commission
and it will be shared between us in the ratio of 60% to me and 40% to
you.We can decide to also start operation with the license if you agree to
partner with me.Once we have the license reallocated to you, this gives us
theauthority to operate as first lifters of crude oil from the block.I will
gladly appreciate your understanding, confidential cooperationand keen
interest to be part of this partnership. Kindly reach me on my private
email address: anna.mapco0@gmail.com <anna.mapco0@gmail.com>Faithfully
yours,Anna Mapco*

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