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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: "marcus opeyemi" <macopee@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: macopeyemm@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 09:10:26 +0000
Subject: JOIN TO PARTNER WITH US

ATTN: THE MANAGING DIRECTOR/CEO

Dear Sir,

URGENT/CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

I am Mr Marcus Opeyemi the Financial Controller
and Contract Award Committee Chairman in the
National Electric Power Authority (NEPA)Lagos, Nigeria.

My colleagues have assigned me to seek for assistance
of a reliable foreigner through whom we can transfer
the sum of USD$30.5 (Thirty Million Five Hundred
Thousand United State Dollars Only) which arose
from the deliberate over-inflated contract value for
the General expansion of the Kanji Dam Thermal
Station on behalf of National Electric Power Authority
(NEPA) for increased energy generation to Nigeria
and some other West African Countries.

The nature of your business is not particularly
relevant for the success of this transaction. All we
require is your willingness to co-operate and assurance
that our own share will be given to us when this money
is transferred into your account.All necessary precautions
have been taken to ensure a no risk situation on the sides
of both parties and it is believed that theconclusion of
this transaction will not last more than 8 working days.

At the conclusion of the transaction we are going to
retrieve the whole documents that will relate to this
transaction and destroy them after the transfer of
the money into your account to avoid any trace of the
money.

Requirement from you are:
(1)your company,s or your name,bank name,your
address and account number.
(2)your personal phone and fax number for easier
communication Since we have no knowledge of
business, our plan is to invest this money into Real
Estate, Stocks and we can also invest in some other
profitable business venture in your country based
on your advise because many of our years has been
spent as civil servants and we may likely resign from
government service to private business after
this money is transferred into your account.
Equally reach me at;marcusopeyemii@hotmail.com

Yours faithfully,
Mr Marcus Opeyemi.


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