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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: "idrislar" <idrislar@tiscali.it>
Reply-To: benczie@uymail.com
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 15:37:01 -0700
Subject: PROPOSAL

MR. BEN CHIKEZIE
ECONOMIC RECOVERY COMMITTE
FEDERAL SECRETARIAT,
LAGOS-NIGERIA
Email:benczie@uymail.com
Dear Sir,
BUSINESS PROPOSAL: TRANSFER OF US$15.5 M(FIFTEEN MILLION,FIVE HUNDREDTHOUSANDUNITED
STATES DOLLARS)
BUSINESS INVESTMENTS PARTNERSHIP.
First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction, this
is by virtue of it's nature as being utterly confidential and top secret
as you were introduced to us in confidence through the Nigerian Chamber
of Commerce, foreign trade division. and if the contents of this mail does
meet with your approval, i humbly crave your indulgence.

I am REV'D BEN CHIKEZIE, the chairman of the Economic Recovery Committee
(ERC)set up by the present civilian Government of Nigeria to review economic
policies of government establishments/parastatals, and find out ways to
reduce waste and maximise revenues allocated to them.In the course of our
work at the ERC, we discovered this fund which resulted from gross re-valuation
of contracts by top government officials of the Nigeria National Petroluem
Coperation (NNPC). The company that executed the contracts had been duly
paid and the contracts commissioned,leaving the sum of US$15.5M Million
lying unclaimed in the RESERVE ACCOUNT of Nigeria Government.Upon interogation
of the directors of engineering and finance, who both were my contemporaries
in the university, they confessed to me in confidence that they had an agreement
with the original contractor to over-valuate the original contract by 30%,as
gratification to them. This 30% which amountsto US$15.5M was to be their
share from the contract, they pleaded to me not to disclose this information
to the government as they will lose their jobs and their family names destroyed,
which I discussed with the other two members of my committee and we all
unanimously agreed to find a foreigner who should put a legal claim on the
fund and have the money transferred to his or her account as the contractor
that completed the contract.

I have therefore been mandated as a matter of trust by my colleagues in
the committee to look for an overseas partner to whom we could used to receive
this sum of US$15.5 M legally, by sub-contracting the original contract
to you. This is bearing in mind that our civil service code of conduct forbids
us from owning foreign company or running foreign account while in government
service, hence the need for an overseas partner.5% percent of this amount
has been mapped out to pay back any of the parties for any financial commitment
he/she makes in the course of seeing to the transfer of this fund in the
form of procurment of all the necessary documents that will give the transaction
its legal backing to ensure that your duty will be your total support,cooperation
and ready to assist in any way whenever you are called upon.All logistics
are in place and all modalities worked out for the smooth conclusion of
the transaction within ten to fourteen days of commencement.Note that you
are entitled to 30% of the USD$15.5M for providing your account for this
transaction

Thanks as i wait for your mail soon and could you please include your telephone
and fax numbers to enable me call too. More so, i will advise that you send
your reply to any of the email adresses above.benczie@uymail.com
REV'D. BEN CHIKEZIE



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