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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: zikmega2@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:18:42 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?FROM=20=20ALEX?=

From:Barrister Alex Zika
Contact Email:zikmeg@yahoo.com

Compliment of the day.

I am Alex Zika.(SAN) , a director of the contracts
Award and
review Department with the Nigeria National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC). I
am contacting you on this business of transferring the
sum of
US$25,386,000,00. (twenty five Million Three Hunderd
and Eighty Six thousand
United States Dollas only) into a safe foreign account
and the need is
very urgent.
I got your contact from a friend directry and it is
with business trust
that made me to contact you on this matter. I write to
solicit for the
transfer of this money into your account. This Money
was generated from
an over Invoiced contact sum in my corporation (NNPC).
20% of this sum
is for you as compensation for using your Bank acconut
in transferring
this money 5% should be for the expenses made during
the processing of
the transferring. While 75% is for me. As a cvil
servant, I am not
permitted to own foreign account due to cvil service
code of conduct.
secondly, my financial resources will not be
sufficient for me to
handle the transfer alone successfully, hence the need
to seek your
co-opertion in order to transfer the money as soon as
possible.
Please note that I will arrange to meet you
immediately after the
successful conclusion of the transfer, the 75% share
of mine will be used
for investment oversea. Your assistance and
co-operation is highly needed
I assure you that this business is 100% free.
if you are interested I will require your banking
information as
mentioned below:
1. Your bank name and address
2. Your account number
3. Name to be used as beneficiary
4. Your bank telephone and fax number.
5. Or you can within the shortest possible time,
confidentially open an
entirely new (Virgin) account for the transaction.
I hope to conclude this business within the next
fourteen-(14) working
days. Looking forward to your anticipated and urgent
positive response.
Best regards,
ALEX ZIKA.(SAN)







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