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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "hundred thousand united state 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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: Chimaroke Nnamani <nnamani14@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <inamani.kenn@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 23:09:59 +0100
Subject: Be My Partner




Be My Partner,I apologise for this unconvetional means of reaching you, i found your email in the internet after a serious search for a reliable foreigner to rescue me.I am Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, the immediate past Governor of Enugu State of Nigeria,I was Governor of my state for the Past eight years and currently a serving senator.recently Our goverment has acused me of looting alot of state Fund and consequently they have seized my properties and frozen my account in America you can read that from this website(URL) http://www.punchontheweb.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200709270282110
I have convinced my goverment that the US$21.5m (Twenty One Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) i deposited in a separet bank was for a foreign contractor that supplied my goverment logistic for eight years and that the said fund has been set aside to pay the foreigner. My goverment in their reaction said i should ask the foreign contractor to claim his fund withing twenty one days or i refund the money to Goverment coffers.I want to present you via an application as the Contractor to receive the fund, so that the proceed will be release to you by the bank where i deposited it.As soon as you receive the fund i shall come to your country where we shall share the fund.Your share will be according to the level of your participation.To enable me draft the application for the release of the fund to you i want you to send me Your Full Name and Company Name. Also send me your phone number for easy communication between us.I await your response.Chimaroke Nnamani
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