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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: "Paul Smith" <mrpaulsmith601@msn.com>
Reply-To: mr_paulsmith1@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:35:08 +0000
Subject: Request for Urgent Business Relationship.

Dear Friend,

First I must solicit your confidence in this transaction. This is by
virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. We
shall be counting on your ability and reliability to prosecute a
transaction of great magnitude involving a pending business transaction
requiring maximum confidence.

We are top officials of the Federal Government Contract Review Panel
who are interested in importation of goods into our country with funds
which are presently trapped in Nigeria. In order to commence this
business we solicit your assistance to enable us RECIEVE the said
trapped funds ABROAD.

The source of this fund is as follows. During the regime of our late
head of state, Gen. Sani Abacha, the government officials set up
companies and awarded themselves contracts which were grossly over-invoiced
in
various Ministries. The NEW CIVILIAN Government set up a Contract
Review Panel (C.R.P) and we have identified a lot of inflated contract funds
which are presently floating in the Bond Bank Of Nigeria (B.B.N).
However, due to our position as civil servants and members of this panel,
we cannot acquire this money in our names. I have therefore, been
delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues of the panel to look for an
Overseas partner INTO whose ACCOUNT the sum of US$15,000,000.00 (FIRTHY
MILLION US DOLLAR ) WILL BE PAID BY
TELEGRAPHIC TRANSFER. Hence we are writing you this letter.

We have agreed to share the money thus:
60% for all partners over here
30% for you as the FOREIGN PARTNER
10% to be used in settling taxation and all local and foreign expenses.

It is from this 60% that we wish to commence the importation business.

Please note that this transaction is 100% safe and we hope that the
funds arrive your account in latest ten (10) banking days from the date of
receipt of the following information by E-mail A suitable name and bank
account into which the funds can be paid.

The above information will enable us write letters of claim and job
Description respectively. This way we will use your company's name to apply
for payments and
re-award the contract in your company name.

We are looking forward to doing business with you and solicit your
Confidentiality in this transaction.

Yours faithfully,
Prof. Paul Smith

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