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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: nelson jones <nelson007jones@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 02:39:44 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: your valued response


Hello Dear,

I am pleased to send my greetings to you. I know this letter will
definitely come to you as a surprise package .I am extending this
proposal to you in my capacity as chairman of the contract Review/Audit
Committee scrutinizing all record covering executed contract awarded by
previous military government of Nigeria.
My colleagues and I have uncovered a floating amount of
USD$25,500,000.00 (TWENTY FIVE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
U.S.DOLLARS), without a clear beneficiary owing to a deliberate act of
over invoicing and inflating of contract value by some government
officials This money (USD$25.5M), has already been approved for payment
by the ministry of Mines, Power and Steel
and is secured under Contract No:MMP/FGN/V1233/ALSCON-29, Job Completion
Certificate No: 677000000242MMPS/C of 17th oct.2001.As top civil
servants, we are not authorized to operate foreign bank account
and this is why we want to use your bank account to transfer this
money outside Nigeria. We have accepted you as our foreign partner
and will now regularize the approvals to you as the trust beneficiary
of the contract sum. As soon as we receive your acceptance, we shall
inform you of the necessary requirements from you to facilitate
the transfer. Let us use this opportunity and export the benefit
of this sum. We have resolved to give you 20% of the total sum as
compensation for your assistance, 70% is for me and my partners
here in Nigeria, 10% is set aside to cover every expenses made in
the course of the transaction.
Your reply is urgently needed. Note that this should be confidential.
NB:MY PRIVATE EMAIL IS,justin007jones@yahoo.com

Yours faithfully,
Nelson Jones.



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