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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:
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "trunk boxes" (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)
  • "million united states dollars" (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)
  • "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 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.
  • frkibeh_51@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Frank Ibeh <frank@frankibeh.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:59:48 +0100 (CET)
Subject: BUSINESS LETTER.


Hello friend,
Your Urgent Partnership Is Needed.
My name is Engr.Frank Ibeh from Lagos-Nigeria.I am the director of Contract Awards at the Nigerian National Petroleum Coporation{NNPC}.I am mwriting you to seek your hand in partnership business that will be financially benefical to both parties concerned on it's logical conclusion.
By virtue of providence,I am in chrage of all contract awards to foriegn Contractors between the years 2004 and 2006.During these years,a lot of contracts were awarded by us and many have been commissioned and completed and the actual values settled to their respective contractors.However, at the end of the season,we are left with a surplus funds which emanated from some over-estimated contracts and we are in urgent need of your assistance in receiving the total sum of Eighteen Million United States Dollars in your bank account for us for the purpose of foreign investment.Right now, this fund is deposited with a security/finance company based in overseas.As government officers,we are not allowed to bank or maintain huge accounts either here or elswhere because of the current civil service code of conduct which was introduced by the present regime, hence the need to seek for foreign assistance in this direction.This is the actual reason for writing you this important letter.
For puroses of further clarification,we applied for the release of this money in the name of a former foreign contractor in the name of Mr.Ronald Toms.We decided to look for a neutral person to assist us receive this money from the Security/finance company because his contract was amogst the over-estimated contracts,hence we need a new person to assist us conclude this deal to avoid any undue suspicions.All documents of this transaction are ready which will be sent to you by attachment,if we trust you to assist us sincerely and confidentially.Also, we wish to state here calearly that trust and friendship must be our watch-word in making sure this business is safely concluded,hence all procedure are totally legal,100% risk-free and totally diplomatic.The fund was packaged in two trunk boxes and marked "Personal Effects" to avoid any undue security checks while on transit.This is to say that you should feel absolutely free to be part of this deal.We have decided that should you have interest in assisting us,you will be entitled to a 30% of the total fund,while you bank 60% for me and my colleagues. The last 10% has been mapped out to cover any contigency expenses that you have to settle in order to receive this fund from the security company.
As soon as I receive your response to this message,I will send you all the documents and give you further details on what must be done immediately for you to represent us legally in the transaction.I will write an introduction letter to the officer in charge to attend to you as our foreign partner and they will go ahead to ivite you to come of the payment on our behalf.But before we can trust you to send you further details and documents, we will need the following information from you to enable us trust you completely as our partner.They should include your names in full, your mobile telephone numbers and your mailing address.Please send these information to my private email address contact:{ frkibeh_51@yahoo.co.uk }, for purposes of confidentiality and privacy.
We shall be expecting your quick response with the needed information in your response message.This should be treated with utmost privacy and urgent attention as we are about to retire from the corporation come March next year when we shall be free to come over to your country to take our share for the investment purpose mentioned above.
Yours sincerely,
Engr.Frank Ibeh.

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