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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "requires utmost trust" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: "Morgan Douglas" <fmomega28@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mdouglas66@latinmail.com
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 06:09:09 -0800
Subject: from Your friend Douglas

FROM THE DESK OF: MR. MORGAN DOUGLAS
AUDITOR GENERAL:CONTRACT AWARD DEPARTMENT
NIGERIA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION (NNPC).

DEAR SIR/MADAM,

REQUEST FOR AN URGENT BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP.

I got to know of you in my search for a reputable person/company to assist
me in an urgent business that would certainly boost the financial standard
of the parties involved when completed, which also requires utmost trust and
confidentiality.

My name is Mr.Morgan Douglas, I am the newly appointed Auditor-General in
the Contract Award Department of the Nigeria National Petroluem Corporation
[NNPC]. As a matter of fact, I was appointed to this Department, after
series of petitions was received by the World Bank and the International
Monetary Fund [IMF] from foreign contractors, due to the inability of the
NNPC to fulfill its obligations, in effecting payment on their long
awaited contract fund, which the Federal Government is heavily indebted.
Based on this, the president and his council of ministers now found it
challenging to this present Democratic dispensation and mandated me to
carry out a careful and comprehensive review on the long awaited contracts
and make sure that all the approved contractors that have completed their
project is duly paid.

In the cause of discharging my duty, I discovered to my greatest surprise
that one MR FREDERICK MILLER, the president of Crane International Trading
Co-operation, was not the actual contractor who executed the said contract
which file was submitted for payment. I discovered that there was a
collaboration with some highly placed past military government officials,
who are no more in the present democratic administration, for a business
deal to claim the sum of USD$6.2Million [Six Million Two Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars] as a contract funds, which was executed to the past
military government. This money still exists in our government payment
schedule and still in this name as the beneficiary without claim to it. But
its really unfortunate to them that their representatives here in Nigeria
have complicated the transaction, thereby unable to meet up with the
federal government obligations that would guaranteed the remittance of the
contract fund into their account in New York. But with my position and
discovery, they are not going to do anything again in this effect, since
all the associated documents that guaranteed the remittance of the fund
into their account is with me Hence my contacting you. I have contacted
you to stand as the beneficiary of the fund. I, being the Auditor General
of this Department will use my position and power to convert and correct
all the anomalies that resulted to their inability to finalize this deal
before now. Then make sure that this money is approved in your favour and
paid to your bank account as the rightful beneficiary, after which I will
come down to your country to share the money with you according to our
mutually agreed percentage.

Please if you are willing and capable of handling this mutual benefitting
business, do indicate your honest interest as soon as you receive this
message and get back to me urgently via my email.
.
Please remember to include your telephone number so that I can call you for
more discussion.

Further steps on how to actualize this DEAL will be revealed to you as soon
as I receive your positive response. But should incase you are not
interested, please respect my trust in you by not exposing this
transaction.You can also reach me at my private email thus:m_doug1928@
katamail.com

Best Regards,

Mr.Morgan Douglas

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