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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: "chris okafor" <chrisokafor2004@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 10:55:03 +0100
Subject: urgent

Subject:BUSINESS PROPOSAL
Tell.234-8053248896.
Chris okafor.


PROPOSAL FOR PARTICIPATORY FINANCIAL TRANSACTION
My name is CHRIS JOHN, I am the Chairman of
the Tenders and Contract Award Committee of the
Niger Delta Development Commission(NDDC). I am making
this contact to you based on the information I got
about your company from a popular business site in the
internet and I beleive that you will be an honest and
a trusthworthy person since we have never met before.
I have the sum of US$20.5Million to be transferred
overseas account upon proper application without any
risk whatsoever. I used my position as the Contract
Award Committee Chairman to get this fund by
over-invoice of Contract award to a consortium of
foreign firm in 1999/2000 for the construction of the
Eleme
Petrochemical and Liquified Natural Gas Plant in Port
Harcourt, worth US$1.2 billion. The contract has been
executed and the contractor has been paid in full.
But this over-invoiced sum of US$20.5M has been kept
in a special Bank account.
Now I am ready to withdraw the fund but due to the
nature of accrual of this fund, the payment can only
be made into a foreign account and it has to be
applied by a foreign beneficiary since the contract
was executed by a foreign firm. Therefore, I need
your assistance to transfer this fund into your
account. You shall be compensated with 25% of the
fund, while 10% shall be used for the reimbursement of
any accidental expenses that we may incurred during
the course of transferring the fund into your account.
Then the remaining 65% is for me.
If you are interested in this business, please get
back to me urgently.There is no risk involved in this
transaction hence you keep it strictly confidential.
As soon as I receive your response, I will forward
fund payment application in your favour to the Central
Bank of Nigeria for payment approval into your
account. This transaction will take us 5 working
days to accomplish. Let me assure you that you will
not make financial contribution to this course in
advance since all relevant charges and fees has been
taking care of.
I look forward for your urgent response.
Thank you.
Best regards,
DR. CHRIS JOHN

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