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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: kennyopara1@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 02:43:55 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?ACKNOWLEGE=20MY=20MAIL=2E?=

From: Mr. KENNY OPARA,
Chairman, Contract Award Committee,
Lagos-Nigeria.
MY PRIVATE EMAIL: kennyopara2002@yahoo.com.au

Subject: PRIVATE.

My name is Mr. KENNY OPARA, and on behalf of my colleagues, I humbly soliciting
for your assistance to transfer the sum of Twenty Five million, five hundred
united state dollars (us$25.5million) into a foreign account. We are members
of the Contract Award Committee, for budget and planning of the Ministry
of Petroleum, this committee is principally concerned with Contract appraisals
and approval of contracts in order to priorities as regards capital project
of the Federal Government of Nigeria. With our positions, we have successfully
secured for ourselves the sum of twenty-five million, five hundred thousand
United States Dollars (US$25.5M). This amount was accumulated through under
cleared windfall from sales of crude oil during the U.S.A and IRAQI War.
What we need from you is to provide a safe account into which the fund will
be transferred since Government officials are not allowed by our laws to
operate foreign account. It has be an agreed that the owner of the account
will be compensated with 15% of the remitted funds, 5% is for any expenses
encure by both party during the process of transfer, while you keep 80%,
for us, pending when we are coming to take it. What we want from you is
the assurance that you will let us have our share when this amount of US$25.5Million
is transferred into your account. If this proposal satisfies you, please
E-mail us, your Telephone/Fax number, so that we can advice you on the modalities
of the transaction. All modalities of the transfer have been worked out
and once started will not take more than 14 working days with the absolute
support of all concerned. This transaction is 100% safe, Please treat as
urgent and very confidential.
God be with you as I look forward to your
Reply.
Yours faithfully,
Mr KENNY OPARA,
PLEASE REPLY TO MY PRIVATE EMAIL: kennyopara2002@yahoo.com.au







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