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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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  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: "ruben brown" <ruben_brown06@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: ganivinbrown@mail.com
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 10:28:07 +0000
Subject: MUTUAL RELATIONSHIP

From the desk of:Gani Brown.
Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)
Falomo, Ikoyi-Lagos, Nigeria

I am pleased to send my greetings to you. I know this letter will definitely
come to you as a surprise; I actually came about your contact when I was
browsing through the Internet searching for a reliable, trustworthy and
confidential partner who can transact this business with us.I am the
chairman of the Contract Review/Audit Committee scrutinizing all record
covering executed contract awarded by previous military government in
Nigeria. My colleagues and I have uncovered a
floating amount of USD$20,500,000.00 (TWENTY MILLION,FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
UNITED STATES DOLLARS), without a clear beneficiary owing to a deliberate
act of overinvoicing and inflating of contract value by some past government
officials.

This money (USD$20.5M), has already been approved for payment by the Federal
Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources and is secured underContract
number MMPS/FGN/1233/MMPS-X29/98, Job Completion Certificate
No:6770024MMPS/C OF 17th Oct.1998.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
approvals to you as the trusted beneficiary of the contract sum. As soon as
we receive your acceptance, we shall inform you of the necessary
requirements from you to facilitate transfer.We have resolved to give you
25% of the total sum as compensation for your assistance, 70% is for me and
my partners here in Nigeria, while,5% is set aside to cover every expenses
to be made in the course of the transaction.

Note that this should be confidential. Send your urgent response through
mail,including

YOUR FULL NAME/AGE YOUR COMPANY NAME
YOUR TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBER
PHOTOPAGE OF YOUR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT OR DRIVERS
LICENCE.

your immediate reply will be appreciated

Yours faithfully,

GANI R. BROWN.



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