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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: christian njoku<cnjo11@tatanova.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 16:18:39 +0530
Subject: URGENTLY AND EXTREMELY CONFIDENTIAL

DEAR FRIEND,

I am an Accountant and the chairman of the tender committee which
awards contract in the department of the petroleum Resources of Nigeria
I sent you a letter by post office sometime ago informing you of our
plan to transfer the sum of US$20.5million (Twenty million, Five
hundred thousand US Dollars only) to your account. I have been waiting
to hear from you,but up till now, nothing has been heard from you hence
this particular message.
In any case, I guess that you may not have received the letter after
all due to the shortcomings of our postal system. I want you to know
that this fund originated from an Over-invoiced contract sum which was
awarded to a foreign firm in 1999. I and my three (3)other colleagues in
the tender Board purposely inflated the actual cost of the contract to the
tune of US$20.5 Million.However, the original contractor has fully executed the
contract, the project commissioned and the contractor paid his actual
contract worth,leaving behind the over-invoiced sum. So, it is based on this that
we now want you/ your company to come forward to claim this sum on our behalf. We
are Civil Servants, and we are not allowed to operate foreign account while
still in office, so you are therefore to act as one who had executed a
contract worth the sum of US$20.5million for my Department and you now want your
payment.
This deal is 100% risk free.We are perfectly in charged and had worked
out modalities that would guarantee a perfect transfer of this fund to
your account. We have also mapped out 30% of the total sum for you for
your help and assistance while the remaining is for me and my
colleagues.If you are interested in the proposal, and you are a trustworthy person who
would not sit on this money if it is transferred to your account, kindly
indicate by contacting me through my E-mail.This deal must be kept
absolutely confidential till we succeed. Thank you as we look forward to your
anticipated co-operation.
NOTE=After a successful transfer, 30% for you, 60% for us, 10% mapped
out to settle expenses incurred by both parties in the process of
transfer.We will also visit you immedaitely we conclude this
transaction to collect and invest our shares of the total sum into any
viable business you may advise us in your country.Contact me urgently
through my E-mail address.
Best regards,
Christian Njoku

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