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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: "Mr Anderson Cole" <manderson533@latinmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: anderson_cole1990@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 11:04:28 +0100
Subject: Information

Dear Sir/Madam,

REQUEST FOR URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS
RELATIONSHIP

Please permit me to introduce myself to you, my name is Mr. Anderson
Cole chartered accountant with the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation and a member of the International contract award
committee of the above corporation, which is under the Federal
Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources.

CONFIDENTIAL: THE SOURCE OF THE FUND IS AS FOLLOWS;

With the assistance of some senior officials of the Federal Ministry
of Finance and Office of the accountant General of the Federation,
we want to quietly transfer the sum of Tewenty Million US Dollars only
($20mUS Dollars only) out of my country Nigeria. This US$20M US
Dollars was quietly over-estimated on the contract for Turn Around
Maintenance (TAM)of Kaduna refinery in Nigeria (NORTHERN
NIGERIA) and the Rehabilitation of Petroleum Pipelines, Depot and
Jetties. The actual contract value of this said project was US$172M
US Dollars,but my colleagues and I deliberately increased the contract
to our own benefit to the tune of $192M US Dollars, of which the
over-estimated value of US$20M US Dollars belongs to us and this
amount is what we want to secretly transfer into your personal or
company account for safe keeping and sharing. The Federal
Government and the Federal Ministry of Petroleum and Natural
Resources have approved the total sum of US$192 Million US
Dollars.

The project has been completed and commissioned by the Federal
Government and the original contractors have been paid their
Contractual sum and what is left now is the US$20Million US Dollars.
Under this circumstance and upon your acceptance we will register
You/your Company as a sub-contractor to the original contractors
with my corporation, so that this fund can be transferred into your
account without hitch whatsoever. Our reasons of soliciting your
assistance to transfer this fund to your account is owing to the policy
of the Federal Government of Nigeria,the code of conduct debars us
civil servants (Government Workers) from operating a foreign account,
hence we are seeking your assistance.

After several deliberations with my colleagues, we decided to give
you 25% as your entitlement for your assistance for providing your
account,while 70% will be for us and the remaining 5% would be
used to offset all local /foreign expenses that might be incurred in
this transaction.However this is based on the ground that you would
assure me of the following:

1 That after the successful transfer of the $20m us dollars into your
account, you will give us our own fare share of 70% without running
away with the money or sitting on it to our detriment.

2 That you will treat this business with utmost secrecy, Confidentiality,
understanding and sincerity, which this business demands.

3 You will assist us (by way of advice) to invest our own share in
business venture(s) in your country.

4 Upon your acceptance of this proposal, KINDLY FORWARD YOUR
TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBER AND YOUR BANK INFORMATION
to me also. PLEASE NOTE: that this business is 100% risk free and will
not implicate you in any way, sir.Finally please if you feel you cannot do
this business with us, kindly delete this message from your computer
or destroy it as it will do you no good showing it to a third party or
anybody whatsoever, please kindly do us this favor for God sake. I
will also want you to know that this transaction has no relationship
with scam.Get back to me at my private email address
(anderson_cole1990@yahoo.co.uk)
Sincerely yours,
Mr. Anderson Cole

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