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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
  • "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • mark_77richard@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mike andrew <m_and_rew@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 16:53:38 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: RE: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL


FROM THE DESK OF
Mark Richards.
25-28 Victoria Island
Lagos-Nigeria.

Dear yoriko,

RE: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL
This letter may come to you as a surprise but it was borne out of my
sincere desire to share a mutual business relationship with you. I am Mark Richards the Director and Funds Coordinator of the finance/contract Department of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
TERMS OF REFERENCE:
My terms of reference involve the financial management and disbursement of proceeds from petroleum products and also the award of contracts to multinational companies.
My office also has the responsibility of screening, categorization and prioritizations of project embarked upon by the NNPC as well as
feasibility studies of selected project and supervising the project consultants involved.
A breakdown of the fiscal expenditure by this office as at the end of
the last quarter of 2004 indicates that the NNPC paid out a whopping sum of US$736M (Seven Hundred and Thirty Six Million United States Dollars) to successful contract beneficiaries.
The Federal Government has approved the sum of US$2Billion for the
payment of NNPC Foreign contractors beginning from first quarter of the 2005.
The Crux of this letter is that the Finance/contract Department of the NNPC deliberately over-inflated the contract value of the various contract awarded. In the course of investigation, this department has been able to track down the sum of US$9.5M (Nine Million, Five hundred thousand US Dollars) as an over invoiced sum. This money is lying floating in the NNPC domiciliary account with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
My colleagues and I now want to quickly transfer this fund to safe a
nominated foreign account for investment abroad. We are not allowed as
a matter of Government policy to operate any foreign account because of our status as Civil/Public servants. Hence our need to solicit for your personal/company bank account to transfer this fund into.
We have agreed that after the money gets into your account, you shall
be entitled to 20%, my colleagues and I shall take 70% while 10% has been mapped out for reimbursement of local and international expenses that may be incurred in the course of the transfer. More so, we intend to make you our fund investment manager as soon as the money gets transferred into your account and we disburse it, we intend to invest reasonable part of our share in your country under your care as our fund investment manager.
We have set in motion the machinery for the take off of this
transaction and further action will commence immediately we hear from you. We shall establish a Memorandum of Understanding with you. Hence, the need for a Trust Bond, Furthermore we will put up a claim and invoice the payment of this money in your favor. You will be duly informed of whatis required from you and as soon as they are received, we shall use them to process the approvals for the payment of the fund into your account within 10 to 14 working days.
While looking forward to having 100% risk free transaction with you, we demand you to keep this transaction confidential at all times,
considering the calibers of people involved, who would not want to tarnish their image nor betray the trust and confidence reposed on them by the Government,
if you expose this transaction, understand?
Remember that the real/true nature of your company's business does not
matter in this transaction.
Yours sincerely,
mark Richards.
Phone: 234-1-4771038
mark_77richard@yahoo.com










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