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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: "deinde adams" <deinde2005@deshmail.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 09:35:43 -1200
Subject: privacy and confidentiality.

TRANSFER OF US$35,500.000.00

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
effe remittance of the sum of$35,500.000.00 resulting from over costing of a

job/services done for the Nigerian National PetroleumCorporation (NNPC), by
foreign

companies.
We are top officials of NNPC. We evaluate and secureapprovals for payment of
contracts executed for NNPC.We have tactfully raised values to a foreign company
for onwarddisbursement among ourselves the Directorof Accounts/Finance and Director
of Audit. This transaction is 100% safe. We are seeking your
assistance and permission to remit this amount intoyour account.

We have agreed to give you 25% of the total value,while our share will be70%.
The remaining5% will beused as refund by both sides to off set the cost thatmust
be incurred in the areas of public relations,engaging of legal practitioner
as attorney,
taxation and other incidentals in the course of securingthe legitimate release
of the fund into your account.

Please indicate your acceptance to carry out thistransaction urgently on receipt
of this letter. I
shall in turn inform you of the modalities for aformal application to secure
the necessary approvalsfor the immediate legitimate release of this fund
intoyour account. Please understand that this transaction must be heldin absolute
privacy and confidentiality.
Thanks for your co-operations.

You can send your reply to this mail box (deinde_adams@yahoo.com)


Yours faithfully,
DEINDE ADAMS

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