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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: "Joseph Bello" <cjosephbello@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 10:57:44 +0000
Subject: Consider this Proposal and get back to me if Interested.

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are making this contact with you after a satisfactory information
gathered from the Nigerian
Chamber of Commerce. Based on this, we are convinced that you will provide
us with a solution to effect remittance of the sum of $35,500.000.00
resulting from over costing of job/services done for the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), by foreign companies.

We are top officials of NNPC. We evaluate and secure approvals for
payment of contracts executed for NNPC. We have tactfully raised values to a
foreign company for onward disbursement among ourselves – the Director of
Accounts/Finance and Director of Audit. This transaction is 100% safe. We
are seeking your assistance and permission to remit this amount into your
account. We have agreed to give you 25% of the total value, while our share
will be70%. The remaining 5% will be used as refund by both sides to off-set
the cost that must be incurred in the areas of public
relations, engaging of legal practitioner as attorney, taxation and other
incidentals in the course
of securing the legitimate release of the fund into your account.

Please indicate your acceptance to carry out this transaction urgently
on receipt of this letter.
I shall in turn inform you of the modalities for a formal application to
secure the necessary approvals
for the immediate legitimate release of this fund into your account. Please
understand that this transaction must be held in absolute privacy.

You can reach me on this my private email. You can also give me your phone
number and fax for easy communication.

Thanks for your co-operations.

Yours faithfully,

Chief Joseph Bello
NNPC Director of Finance
Tel: +234 803 473 3951
Fax: +234 189 310 7210
Email: cjosephbello@yahoo.com


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