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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: drehabib@terra.com.mx
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:16:39 +0100
Subject: From Dr. Edgar Habib

Dear Sir/Ma\'am,

May the love and peace of God be with you and your family. I am a member
of the Federal Government of Nigeria Contract Award and Monitoring Committee
in Chevron Texaco Oil Corporation Nigeria. Sometime ago, a contract was
awarded to a foreign firm in Chevron Texaco Oil, by my Committee. This contract
was over invoiced to the tune of US$21,500,000.00. This was done deliberately.
The over-invoicing was a deal by my committee to benefit from the project.
We now want to transfer this money which is in a suspense Account with Chevron
Texaco Oil Corporation into any Overseas Account which we expect you to
provide for us.

SHARE: -For providing the account where we shall remit the money into, you
will be entitled to 30% of the money, 60% will be for me and my partners
while 10% has been mapped out from the total sum to cover any expenses that
maybe incurred by us during the course of this transfer, both locally and
international expenses. It may interest you to know that a similar transaction
was carried out with one MR. PATRICE MILLER, President of Crane International
Trading Corp. of 153 East 57th St., 28th floor, NY10022, TELEX: 6731689.
The deal was concluded and all covering documents were forwarded to MR.
MILLER to authenticate the claim. Once the funds were transferred, MR. MILLER
presented his Bank with all the legal documents and remitted the whole funds
to another Bank Account and disappeared completely. My colleagues were shattered,
as such opportunities do not come all the time. You have to assure me of
your sincerity, trust worthyness and co-operation in this matter.I would
require the following: -

1. Your Full Name and address
2. Your telephone and fax numbers.
3. The Details of your account where the money will be remitted.

The above information would be used to make formal applications as a matter
of procedure for the release of the money and onward transfer to your account.
It does not matter whether or not your company does contract projects of
this nature described here. The assumption is that your company won the
major contract and subcontracted it out to other companies. More often than
not, big trading companies or firms of unrelated fields win major contracts
and subcontracts to more specialized firms for execution of such contracts.
We are ordinary civil servants and we will not want to miss this once in
a lifetime opportunity to get rich. We want this money to be transferred
to the overseas Accounts for us, before the present Democratic Government
start auditing all Federal Government owned Parstatals.

Please contact me immediately via email whether or not you are interested
in this deal. If you are not, it will enable me scout for another foreign
partner to carry out this deal. But where you are interested, send the required
informations aforementioned herein through email, as time is of the essence
in this business.I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.
Best Regards,
Dr. Edgar Habib

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