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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:

• 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)
  • "into your nominated bank account" (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)
  • "abuja" (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.
  • don_lord@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "DON LORD" <don_lord2@msn.com>
Reply-To: don_lord@myway.com
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:04:11 +0000
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL

From the Desk of Senator DON LORD Chairman Contract Verification Committee Dear SIR , Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL and TOP SECRET. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make anyone apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. I deem it necessary to introduce myself before I present my proposal. I am Senator Don Lord. The Chairman contract verification Committee in the House of Senate. Our responsibility is to verify and pay all genuine foreign contractors that executed contract in Nigeria during the past military regime who has not received their full payment. In our investigation, I found out that there is an English contractor who executed contract in Nigeria in 1992. The contract awarding committee over invoiced the contract value to the tune of Thirty Two Million Dollars, (32,000,000.00 Dollars). This English firm has been approved for payment by my committee. The contract awarding committee has since been disbanded. The details of the contracts are as follows: 1. Contract Description: The supply and Installation of Petro-Chemical equipments for the Abuja refinery. 2. Contract Number:NNPC/PED/9753/92/ABJREF. 3. Contract Amount: 32 Million Dollars. This contract sum has been approved for payment by my committee so I would like you to get back to me as I have nominated you as the rightful beneficiary of this fund. So that the money can be telegraphically wired into your nominated bank account and then you and I Can share the money. 70% to me and 30% to you. please kindly get back to me, so that I can instruct the bank to go ahead with the transfer. I await your earliest response. Thanks in anticipation and best regards. Yours faithfully, Senator Don Lord Please reply to me on this email address: don_lord@myway.com

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