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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: tunjiphilips02@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 04:10:48 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?HELLO?=


Hello,

I am Engr Tunji Philips, the Chairman of the contract Tenders Board of Nigerian
Telecommunications, (NITEL).

My committee has the responsibility for the recommendation and award of
contracts and supplies for the NITEL. In the course of our assignment, we
did over-inflate the contracts for some supplies to the NITEL as a result
of which the sum of USD $25.8m (Twenty five million, Eight Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars only) is now outstanding. The original contractors
who executed the jobs have since been fully paid off, leaving this outstanding
sum. Unfortunately, we as civil servants are not allowed to own or operate
a foreign account and it is also not possible for us to withdraw the money
here locally.
We therefore need your kind assistance to transfer this outstanding sum
of USD $25.8m to your account anywhere very safe. We shall compensate you
with 25% of the funds for your assistance after the transfer. We the officials
here shall have 65% while 10% will be set aside for any incidental expenses.


Please note that this transaction is absolutely risk-free on both sides
since we are using our positions to facilitate it. All logistics has been
carefully mapped out for a hitch free transaction. The new civilian dispensation
in Nigeria has given a most auspicious environment to do the transaction
and all the record will be removed and destroyed immediately after the transfer.
We however demand that you keep the transaction to yourself only until the
funds arrive in your account.

You need to send us urgently the particulars of your Private or company
bank account where the funds will be transferred. As soon as we receive
this, we shall commence the process and it is expected to take 5 working
days for the complete transfer to be effected. Send your response to my
e-mail address above and include your private tel/fax number for ease of
communication.

Yours sincerely,
Engr Tunji Philips.

NOTE: Please indicate your direct telephone and fax number in your reply
to this mail for easy communication / further directives.Send a copy of
your response to my alternate email address tunjiphilips2@hotmail.com.







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