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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: "uba mike" <ubamike@projectnnpc.com>
Reply-To: ubamike_nnpc@yahoo.co.in
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 10:36:57 +0000
Subject: Thanks for your cooperation

Dear Friend,

I am Dr Uba Mike,Project Accountant of the Contract Award Committee of the
Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC).

In Apirl/20/2003 my cooperation was awarded some contracts for refurbishing
of the petro-chemical complex at Eleme,supply and installation of rigging
and drilling eqiupment and repairing of Warri and Port-Harcourt Refineries
for $420,000,000.00 but with my privileged position , the contract value was
over-invoiced to $427,000,000.000, this benefits me and my department
$7,000,000 as over invoiced.

On August/16/2004 ,the foregign contractor that we awarded the contract
received their full payments from the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN). In this
view,we require an honest and trustworthy person who will not betray our
trust to use his company and account to transfer out the balance of the over
in-voiced before we could share it, because if we use our local account for
the tranfer, CBN will suspect us.

That is why we want to bestow this trust on you and it is our sincere wish
that you do not betray us .So it is because of the balance of $7m which we
now have left that we are sending you this confidential e-mail ,we have
favoured an incentive of 25% to you as the account owner and 5% to offset
all expenses that might be incured on the process of the tranfer, while the
remaining 70% will for me and my department.

Confirm to me your trustworthiness and acceptance of this proposal, Please
your urgent response is greatly required and should you not be in a position
to assist,kindly inform me as quickly as possible so that i could make an
alternative arrangement.

Thanks for your cooperation.
Dr Uba Mike

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