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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: "Andrew Okafor" <andrewokafor44@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: okafora1@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:29:54 -0600
Subject: LETTER OF INTRODUCTION

Dear Sir/Ma

Good day to you.

I hope this letter meets you well, I am Mr.ANDREW OKAFOR am sorry if I have
intruded on your privacy or barged in on you without your permission. I have
a very rewarding project which I think will be beneficial to both of us
putting trust,confidentialty and most of all the fear of God into focus. If
after going through this email you do not find it interesting please
disregard it and send me a formal response.

I was a member of the Abuja National stadium building and organizing
committee of the just concluded "ALL AFRICAN GAMES" which was organized and
hosted by
Nigeria but before now I have been a director of sports in the Federal
Ministry of Sports and Youth Development.

We were appointed over 3 years ago to supervise the building of the ultra
modern Abuja National Stadium, putting in place all equipments needed for
the
completion of the stadium which is acclaimed to be one of the best in the
world today and also involved in the planning and hosting of the games. This
project
cost the government of Nigeria Millions of dollars.

The stadium project has been completed,all equipments put in place and
commissioned and used for the All African Games tagged "ABUJA 2003".The
accounts have
been rendered to the government satisfactorily and we have received
commendations for a job well done.

During the construction, planning and execution of this project,as the
chairman of contract award committee I was able to make some money for
myself
through contract that was awarded to Dewolfgang Gmbh which I over-invoiced
to the tune of USD18.5M with the help of Dewolfgang Gmbh the original
contractor.

All I want you to do is to assist me in clearing this amount while standing
in as the owner and director of Vacknol Nigeria International Limited in
whose name I
made as the beneficiary of the funds. Vacknol Nigeria International Limited
is an international company and could have a company anywhere in the world
the most
important thing been that it is registered here in Nigeria as a limited
liability company in line with the company and allied matters decree of
Nigeria which
I have since done, I have also in my possession some contract document which
will act as proof that Vacknol Nigeria International Limited executed the
contract as
a sub contractor under the Dewolfgang Gmbh who is the major contractor that
executed the contract that was over -invoiced.

On the payment of this money to you as the supplier in the name of Vacknol
Nigeria International Limited because I will apply for the transfer in this
name,and
you as the director of the company. I will come to meet with you so that we
can both sit down and discuss further,what kind of business we will enter
into or if
need be expand your already existing business, but actually I hope to
establish a five star hotel and go into real estate development as these are
life time businesses that I know are of high yeild interest any where in the
world.

I know you will be entitled to some percentage of this money as compensation
for your efforts, Please feel free to indicate what you will take from this
amount,as this is very important to me before we commence proceedings.

I will tell you more about this when I hear from you.I will give you every
detail of what we are to do . Please do contact me immediately.

Regards.

ANDREW OKAFOR

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