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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "NNPC NIGERIA" <nnpc_cad@msn.com>
Reply-To: nnpcsec@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 08:03:42 +0000
Subject: YOUR CO-OPERATION IS HIGHLY NEEDED




FROM:MR. PETERS DENGA,
CONTRACT AWARD DEPARTMENT,
NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORP.
7 FALOMO CLOSE ,IKOYI.LAGOS.

ATTN:

Please I crave your indulgence to kindly go through this email, and then
give it your utmost cooperation, which surely would benefit us. I am a
member of the Contract Award Department of the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC). My contact to you in based on the authorisation from my
colleagues in the dept.

We therefore seek your cooperation for the transfer of fourteen million,
three hundred dollars ($12.3m). This money came up as a result of
over-invoicing of contracts that was awarded to a foreign firm by our
corporation in the year 2003. The contractor have been paid his money, and
this money is now floating in the suspense account of NNPC since then. We
therefore see now as the prime time for us to put up claims for the
over-invoiced money to be transferred outside Nigeria via your account.
Moreover by law here in Nigeria, as civil servants, we are not permitted to
operate any foreign account while still in active service.

All necessary arrangements concerning this transfer have been perfected with
the bank where this money is lodged. We therefore want you to work in
partnership with us, so that you will be presented as the bonafide
contractor. We will provide all the necessary legal documents that can be
used to back up the claim you will make. All we require is your honest
cooperation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will
be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any
breach of the law.

For working in partnership with us, we have agreed to offer to you 25% of
the total amount. In the same manner, we shall provide you with the
neccessary contractors' documents that will prove you a bonafide
beneficiary of this contract, and 5% of this money will be used to run the
expenses that will occur during this transaction, both locally here and
internationally.

We hope to come down to your country, for the sharing of the money according
to the above ratio. This should be wherever the money will transferred to.
You can reach me through this email . for More information awaits your
urgent reply.

Best Regards.
Mr. Peters Denga

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