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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:
  • "abuja" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: "Contract Committee" <contractcommittee@msn.com>
Reply-To: engr_ahmed@excite.com
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 08:59:04 +0000
Subject: URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL

NNPC Office Complex
FCT Abuja.

ATTENTION: Chairman/Managing Director

RE: URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL

Compliments of the season. I am Mary Ibe a memeber of the Contract Award Committee of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. I have been mandated to solicit your partnership in a matter I believe will be of mutual benefit to us. This would require your trust and capability to work with me with your genuine cooperation. I and other colleagues involved in this transaction are still in active government service with the Ministry of Petroleum and we are in dire need of a foreign partner to assist us in the receipt and investment of Eighteen Million Six Hundred and Fifty-Five Thousand United States Dollar (USD 18,655, 000.00). The fund is the over-invoice of a completed and commisioned contract. The original contractor have been paid it's full contract value and the over-invoice is in the NNPC suspense account as retention fee owed to a foreign contractor.

The key issue is the transfer of the said sum to an account that will be
provided by you for the purpose of safekeeping and subsequent investment in a profitable venture. We are ready to go into an agreement with you regarding your percentage in this transaction. It does not matter whether or not you own a company, we shall guide you on what to do.

It is pertinent to know that under the Nigeria Government Service Code of Conduct, Civil servants are not allowed to operate or own a bank account overseas, hence your importance as a foreign partner. I have reposed my confidence in you and hope you will not disappoint me. Should you be willing to assist with a common goal, endeavour to contact me immediately or call engineer Ahmed on 234 803 512 1398.
I await in anticipation for your fullest co-operation.

Regards,
Mary Ibe (Mrs)

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