"Saudi Aramco Crude Oil Company" Advance Fee Scams

The fake "Saudi Aramco Crude Oil Company" email below is a scam. Recipients are asked to delete it and should not follow the instructions in it. The fake email is being sent by scammers who are impersonating the real person and who are attempting to trick their potential victims into sending them money or personal information. An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and one of the most common types of confidence trick. The scam typically involves promising the victim a significant share of a large sum of money, in return for a small up-front payment, which the fraudster requires in order to obtain the large sum.

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Saudi Aramco Crude Oil Company Advance Fee Scams

A "Saudi Aramco Crude Oil Company" Advance-Fee Scam

From: "Saudi Aramco Crude Oil Company" - info@aramco.com

Date: April 10, 2019 at 2:58:18 AM MST

To: Recipients - info@aramco.com

Subject: Partnership!

Reply-To: csaudiaramco1@gmail.com

Saudi Aramco Crude Oil Company.

P.O. Box 5000. Dhahran 31311,

Dhahran-Saudi Arabia.

Dear Friend,

I have a legit and genuine lucrative business deal to discuss with you.Can i trust you to be a sincere partner to handle the business? For more information reply back.

Mrs. Reem Nasser,

Sales/Marketing Manager

Saudi Aramco Crude Oil Company.

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May 1, 2019 at 4:12 PM by
"Saudi Aramco Crude Oil Company" Advance Fee Scams
an anonymous user from: Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

Received this scam:

"Hello,

Thanks for your response. I give you my trust and guarantee as we are going to work together and I promise that I will be very honest and sincere with you.

At this point, here is attach copy of the Company Registration Form Document. You are required to filled and signed the Company Registration Form and returned it back urgently. You need to print out the documents then sign and attach and send them back to me via email. That is how I need them, for authenticity. You are only required to filled by writing on it and sign on the left side bearing the Beneficiary signature.

NOTE: When filling the Company Registration Form for the company details; write the Company name as HAMMAMI OIL & GAS COMPANY. Company address as P.O. Box 5000. Dhahran 31311, SaudI Arabia. Then for the personal Details write your complete names and your home address.

Your major obligation in this deal is to setup an offshore account, manage, disburse funds accrued from the sales of these crude daily in an offshore account with a Bank that will be communicated to you in later date. We don't want the money here in SaudI Arabia due to the ever changing political situations. You will be responsible for setting up this account. All proceeds from the sales of the crude oil products will be channeled into the new offshore account that you will setup in your name. I am going to send you the bank contact information for the opening of the offshore account.

Hence the company will be registered in your name here in SaudI Arabia. It will be called HAMMAMI OIL & GAS COMPANY. Your physical presence in SaudI Arabia to stand as the independent foreign contractor is not really important, I will handle all cost/facilities/manpower required to explore/store/export these barrels. These are our primary responsibility.

I am going to send you the Bank contact details were the Offshore Account will be setup. It will protect us from any insecurity and International Financial Regulatory Agency's scrutiny, as crude oil buyers have a way of doing business to avoid raising eyebrows since they are in key positions in government so let them be our guide in that regard as to where to Bank the funds they are providing which will transcend into our business purse in the long run once the operations start fully. Please you are to adhere to my instructions.

You will manage and notify of any funds you receive in the account and would be given instructions for wires also to all the necessary parties. Kindly send the below information for authenticity.

Full Name:

Contact Address:

Country:

Mobile Number:

Date Of Birth:

Gender:

Occupation:

Company Name:

Company Address:

Job Position:

Company Phone number:

As a matter of fact we expect $100 Million USD first in the coming day from a Georgian buyer who is already on ground and there is the need to speed up the account opening as I would need to forward the details to him and this means your 15% is certain as soon as the funds is confirmed in your account.

Meanwhile, attached to this message is the application form which you are to fill and send it back to us via email to enable us create your file in our office and also to enable our legal department to prepare the MOA that will back up this transaction between you and our company.

Time is not our friend, We’ll start exporting immediately we secure the License for your company name (HAMMAMI OIL & GAS COMPANY). I await the filled application form with a copy of your international passport for your identification.

Mrs.Reem Nasser,

Sales/Marketing Manager

SaudI Aramco Crude Oil Company

Official E-mail: reemnasser@aramoil.com"

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April 11, 2019 at 8:57 PM by
"Saudi Aramco Crude Oil Company" Advance Fee Scams
info

Here is another scam:

"From: Saudi Aramco Crude Oil Company <info@aramco.com>

Date: April 10, 2019 at 11:10:17 PM MST

To: Recipients <info@aramco.com>

Subject: Partnership!

Reply-To: csaudiaramco1@gmail.com

Saudi Aramco Crude Oil Company.

P.O. Box 5000. Dhahran 31311,

Dhahran-Saudi Arabia.

Dear Friend,

I have a legit and genuine lucrative business deal to discuss with you.Can i trust you to be a sincere partner to handle the business? For more information reply back.

Mrs. Reem Nasser,

Sales/Marketing Manager

Saudi Aramco Crude Oil Company."

Delete

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"Saudi Aramco Crude Oil Company" Advance Fee Scams