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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "lagos" (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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2348036672183 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • philipwilly@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "philip willy" <phi_philip110@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: philiwilly@myway.com
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 00:45:59 +0100
Subject: LETTER OF INTENT

DR, philip willy,
Director Project Implementation
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC,
24, Kofo Abayomi Street,
FALOMO, IKOYI - LAGOS.
Niger House, 6TH FLOOR
Telephone:2348036672183.
Email:philipwilly@myway.com

URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
ATT:Sir \ Madan,

I am DR, philip willy, Director Project Implementation with the
Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and a member of the contract
Tenders
Board (CTB) of the above name Corporation.

Your esteemed address was reliably introduced to me at the Nigerian
Chamber
of Commerce and Industry in my search for a reliable individual/Company
who
can handle a strictly confidential transaction which involves the
transfer
of a reasonable sum of money to a foreign account.
This money amount to a total sum of US$14,000,000(Fourteen million was
extracted from various contracts awarded by the Contracts Tenders
Boards
(CTB) as a result of over-invoicing masterminded by the concerned
officials
have been drafted to represented final payment for a contract that has
been
executed to the Corporation (NNPC) some years back. The money is now
floating in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) awaiting claim by a
foreign
partner which status we now want you to assume.

Now is the optimum period to consummate this transaction following the
Presidential Directive to all Corporations to pay off all debts. I
therefore
seek for your assistance to remit this money into your
personal/Company’s
account .In my last meeting with other officials involved, it was
unanimously agreed that 25% of the total sum will be given to you, 70%
will
be for me and my colleagues, while 5% will be used to re-imbursed the
expenses that may be incurred in the processing of the transfer.

I assure you that the transaction is 100% risk free as we have
concluded
every arrangement to protect the interest of every one involved. Like
wise,
all modalities for the successful transfer of this money have been
worked
out with the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank of
Nigeria to
facilitate the remittance of this money to your designated Account.

However, I would want to believe that you are honest enough and will
not
raise any misgiving attitude in any aspect of this transaction, more
importantly; you will keep this transaction very confidential so as to
tarnish the confidence reposed on these officials by the Federal
Government
of Nigeria.

If this business proposal interests you, kindly call me on my direct
telephonenumber TELEPHONE:234-8036672183. or email me your banking
information/details through the above email address for the immediate
commencement of the remittance and to enable me send you further
information
on the transaction.

Meanwhile, your immediate response will be highly appreciated.
Best regards.

DR philip willy.

MY DIRECT TELEPHONE:
234-8036672183

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