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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: "john johnson" <johnjohn_cca@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: johnjohn_cca@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 04:37:03 +0000
Subject: #MATTURED BUSINESS TRANSACTION#

FROM THE DESK OF
JOHN ODEH
NNPC

I am John Odeh, Chairman of Contract Award and Verification Panel setup by
the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). I got your contact from
the Nigeria Chambers of commerce and industries, and after thorough
enquiries and deliberations, I and my colleagues decided to contact you for
a very confidential business transaction of mutual benefit.

During our verification exercise, we came across an over-invoiced
contract(Contract No: NNPC/PED/1473/97). This contract was awarded in
July,1997 and completed in August, 1999, and the original contractor has
since been paid his contract sum leaving the over-invoiced sum of
US$65.5m(Sixty Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars)
This amount have been left floating in our account with the Central Bank of
Nigeria, until our recent discovery. My colleagues and I have decided to
seek for the assistance of a reliable foreign partner into whose account the
fund will be transferred into for our own use. If this proposal is
acceptable to you, a Deed of Transfer of the above contract will be obtained
on your behalf, to empower you as the legal beneficiary of the contract and
the sum to be transferred.

All necessary and relevant documents will be procured for the release and
transfer of the fund into your nominated account. An application for foreign
exchange allocation will be made on your behalf from my office to the
federal ministry of finance (FMF) and the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN) for
the subsequent release and transfer of the fund into your nominated account.
Be informed that we are working in collaboration with top officials of the
federal ministry of finance and the Central Bank of to fax us your nominated
bank account details and your direct telephone and fax numbers.

Please treat this transaction with top priority and remember to keep it as
confidential as possible.
As soon as we receive your response, more details about how to proceed
will be given to you.

We await your prompt response.
Best Regards,


JOHN ODEH

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