The e-mail here is just one type of the thousands of scam e-mail variants sent out each day by 419 scammers. If you've received an e-mail even remotely similar to the one on this page or if you have arrived at this page via an internet search resulting from an e-mail that you received, YOU HAVE RECEIVED A SCAM E-MAIL!

This is an internet scam! Do NOT send these scammers money for any reason. [ BEGIN SCAM E-MAIL ]   From:     Robert Koffi <robertkoffi@i12.com> Reply-To:     robertkoffi@i12.com Subject:     From Mr Robert Koffi(Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC) Date:     20 Sep 2008 15:00:30 -0000 (11:00 EDT) Dear Friend, I am Mr Robert Koffi the Chief Accountant of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) headquarters,Nigeria. I reliably got your contact from the database I have no reason to doubt your honesty and credibility hence I make this proposal to you.   Please, treat with utmost confidence and excuse me the embarrassment this letter might cause you as we have not met or known each other before. I have the mandate of my colleagues in office to solicit for your assistance and cooperation for a deal we want to execute, My Corporation(NNPC) awarded a contract of US$86,700,000.00 (Eighty - Six Million, Seven Hundred Thousand U.S Dollars) to a Foreign firm to do the TURN AROUND MAINTENANCE(TAM) on the Kaduna Refinery here in Nigeria with my position this contract was over invoiced to US$115,300,000.00 (One Hundred and Fifteen Million,Three Hundred Thousand United State Dollars).   We are now left with the over-invoiced sum of US$28,600,000.00 (Twenty Eight Million, Six Hundred Thousand U.S.Dollars). All arrangements have been concluded on how this money would be moved.Our constrain lies on the fact that we require a foreign firm or individual where the money will be paid to.This is where you will come in as the beneficiary. NOTE:-There is no risk involved, We are earmarking 35% of the total sum to you if really you are interested to assist while 60% shall be for me and my colleagues, while 5% would reimburse all out of pocket expenses.If you are willing to assist and participate, we shall require the following informations to enable us process the claim immediately: Full name,(personal or company),address,direct phone and fax. You are implored to accord this proposal a high degree of secrecy and confidentiality.You may be required to open a separate bank account offshore for this purpose.   Awaiting your earliest and positive response, Regards Mr Robert Koffi   [ END SCAM E-MAIL ]

It's important to note that any real people or legitimate organizations mentioned in these scam e-mails have absolutely no connection with this scam! The scammers never use their real names. They frequently take on the identity of real people to help them convince you that they are genuine. Whatever these scammers tell you, DON'T believe a word of it!!!

This is just a small sampling of the many hundreds of advance fee fraud e-mails received each day here at 419 BAITER headquarters. It is 100% pure B.S. Purity Guaranteed!

There are many different types of 419 scam (examples) but they all promise you something (fortune, job with salary / commision, low-interest loan, lottery prize, cheap gold dust / diamonds, work visa, etc.) in return for a small 'fee' or some kind of remittance. Of course, there is no fortune, no job, no loan, no prize to be had. It's just a ploy to get you to willingly send them money.

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NOTE TO SPAMMERS: My scam e-mail filtering system is pretty good but it isn't perfect. Occasionally a regular spam e-mail may get mistakenly published here as a 419 scam. This is inadvertent. If you are a spammer and you don't wish to have your spam crap mistakenly published on this website as an advance fee scam, the solution is simple. Don't send me your spam crap.