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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Ferdinand Egeberg" <ferdegeberg_nnpc@tiscali.co.uk> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 19:11:23 -0800
Subject: Urgent


ATTN:THE PRESIDENT/CEO

DEAR SIR


PROPOSAL FOR TRANSFER OF THIRTY FIVE MILLION, US DOLLARS (US$35M) INTO
YOUR ACCOUNT.

Your contact address got to me via export promotions council, your
reliability and trustworthiness in business transaction was the main
conviction that compelled me to solicit for your support in this deal.
I am the Financial Controller of the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) Lagos,Nigeria and Secretary to the Contract Award
Committee of my Ministry.

In collaboration with my colleagues, we have agreed to transfer out of
the Country through Federal Ministry of Finance (FMF) some amount and
we will later reinvest it abroad after the success of this transaction.

The amount involved is Thirty Five Million, US Dollars (US$35,000,000.00).
This is as a result of over inflated amount of a contract. The contract
has been already executed and the original contractor had collected his
full and final payment. In as much as this contract was awarded to a
Foreign Contractor and the payment in dollars, we now need a Foreign
firm that will present itself as the contractor for this amount of Thirty
Five Million, and then the funds will be transferred into your account.
Since we do not want to use the orginal contractor in applying for the
payment, because the Contractor is not aware of this over-invoiced sum.

Therefore, I as the Financial Controller was told to write you by my
colleagues and see the success of the remittance immediately, you will
however, be required to furnish us with these necessary informations.

1.Your personal phone and fax number for easy communication
2.Name and Address of your Bank, Phone, Fax and Telex numbers
3.Your Account number where this money will be lodged into and
the Beneficiary’s name. It could be personal or corporate.

These information will enable us put APPLICATION OF CLAIMS for the
release of this Funds from concerned Government Agencies and it will
last for ten working days.

For your assistance we have agreed that the fund will be shared as follows:

You as the Account Owner 35%
Miscellaneous Expenses 10%
Officials Involved 55%

Note,as civil servant, we will not have enough funds to conclude this
transaction over here,like payment of taxes and registration processes,
therefore we shall need little financial assistance from you.We assure
you that all arrangements have been concluded for the success of this
transaction, so if you are interested, reply us through E-MAIL.

Yours faithfully,

Mr.Ferdinand Egeberg

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