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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:
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "sani abacha" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • barrister.s.o.peters@caramail.com

Fraud email example:

From: BARRISTER SAMUEL .O. PETERS <samuelolup@netscape.net>
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 14:06:13 +0100
Subject: HELLO


From Office of the Foreign Contracts Chairman.
Barrister Samuel.O.Peters (SAN) .
Dear
We are making this contact with you based on the
reliable information available to us concerning your reputation and well-organized
Company (at our Chamber of Commerce and industry).The information is so
positive as to convince us that you would be capable to provide us
with a solution to a money transfer of fifty million,five hundred
thousand United States Dollars (US50,500,000.00). We are members of
a special Committee set up for the review and award of contracts
by the department of Nigeria Petroleum and Mineral Resources.Our
status ranks from Ministerial post down to Directors-General.
This Committee is principally mandated by the new Civilian Government to
review the bogus and the over-inflated Contracts awarded since 1993
to May 1999, under the regimes of the former heads of state of
Nigeria - Late General Sani Abacha whodied in office in June, 1998
and his successor General Abdulsalam Abubakar who relinquished
power in May, 1999.In the course of our duty, we have so far been
able to recover about US135,000,000.00 (One Hundred
and Thirty-five Million United States Dollars) out of which we have used our

good offices to set aside the sum of US50,500,000.00 for our
utilization.However as Civil Servants, our code of conduct strictly prohibits
us from operating or running a foreign Account, hence we
decided to contact you and ask for your assistance. Together
with some of the top officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation
(NNPC), and the Federal Ministry of Finance, we plan to transfer
this amount of money into an oversea Account by awarding a non
existent Contract from our parastatal (NNPC) to you, to perfect the
transfer. What we need from you, is to provide a very vital Account
into which the funds will be transfered. The trust reposed on you at
this juncture is enormous.In return, we have agreed to offer you
25% of the transferred sum, while 5% shall be set aside for
incidental expenses. You must however note that this transaction is subject
to the following terms and conditions: Our conviction of your
honesty and diligence that you would treat this transaction with utmost
secrecy and confidentiality. That you will not sit on the fund
when finally gets into your Account.That the funds would
be transferred to an interest bearing Account where the incidence of taxation
would not exert a heavy toll. I would like to assure you that I have
carefully and painstakingly made all arrangement to ensure
actualization of this transaction which will be concluded within a
few working days of the necessary information and details. The nature of our

communication is of utmost importance hence you may reach me via my
above private email : barrister.s.o.peters@caramail.com .

Best Regard,
Barrister Samuel Olusegun Peters (SAN).
Honorable Chairman .

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