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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: "Osita Nwajah" <ositanwajah@efcc.org> (may be fake)
Reply-To: osita_nwajah@the-police.com
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 00:13:27 +0100
Subject: From EFCC

Economic and Financial Crimes Commision(EFCC)
Abuja.
Nigeria.

Sir,

It is very important that you read this email carefully and get back to me immediately.

My Name is OSITA NWAJAH,Head of Media & Publicity of the body stated above.The commision came into being due to the continously rising wave of corruption,crime and internet Fraud in Nigeria and outside mostly carried out by Nigerians.
.This commision has been,since its inception,carried out investigation into reports from foreign genuine businessmen who have lost sums of Money to Dubious Nigerian characters through false pretensions and propositions.

We have arrested a total of 647 men and women and recovered from there Local and Foreign BAnk accounts a total of $45M.Take note that majority of these people and Nigerians who live in London,south Africa,USA,Holland and there parts of the world doing an illegal thing that has brough great image problems for the innocent Nigerian Businessman. Those arrested have made confessional statements and it was from one of them that we got your email address as one of his victims.

There maybe a mix up here,if there is then we are sorry for evading your privacy.However,if the information we have is accurate then it is in your own interest that you contact me back immediately with information that will help us verify that you lost Money to any of these fraudsters and then you will have your Money refunded immediately.

As i said before,if this is a mistake please disregard this email.


Sincerely,
Osita Nwajah

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