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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:
  • "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)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2348033830398 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • jacksonidris@nyc.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr\.Jackson Idris" <jacksonidris@terra.com.mx>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 05:55:34 -0600
Subject: FROM Dr. Jackson Idris


FROM:THE DESK OF DR.JACKSON IDRIS
Reply to Email:jacksonidris@nyc.com
Telephone: 234-8033830398

I am DR.JACKSON IDRIS Chairman of Contract Award and Verification Panel set up by the Nigeria National Petroleum Coporation. I got your contact from the net during my personal search ,after thorough deliberations,my colleagues and I decided to contact you for a very confidential and profitable business transaction of mutual benefit.During our verification exercise,we cameacross an over-invoiced contract(Contract No: NNPC/PED/1473/2003).
This contract was awarded in July,2003 and completed in August, 2004, and the original contractor has since been paid his contract sum leaving the
over-invoiced sum of US$15.5m(fifteen million Five , Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) This amount have been left floating in our account with the federation bank, until our recent discovery.

My coleagues and I have decided to seek for the assistance of a reliable
foreign partner into whose account the fund will be transferred into for
our own use. If this proposal is acceptable to you, a "Deed of Transfer"of
the above contract will be obtained on your behalf, to empower you as the
legal beneficiary of the contract and the sum to be transferred. All
necessary and relevant Documents will be procured for the release and transfer of the fund into your nominated account.

An application for foreign exchange allocation will be made on your behalf
from my office to the federal ministry of finance (FMF) and the federation
bank for the subsequent release and transfer of the fund into your nominated
account.Be informed that we are working in collaboration with top officials of the federal ministry of finance and the federation bank,who will assist us in the transfer of the fund. With your cooperation the success of this transaction is guaranteed.

We have agreed to compensate you with 30% of the total sum, 60% will be
for me and my colleagues here,while the remaining 10% have been mapped-out for miscellaneous expenses that might be incurred by both parties during
the course of this transaction. All things being equal, this transaction
will be concluded within 6 working days upon the day of receipt of your
response.

You are required to email us your nominated bank account details and your
direct telephone and fax numbers .Please treat this transaction with top
priority and remember t o keep it as confidential as possible. As soon as
we receive your response by telephone call or through my email:jacksonidris@nyc.com
more details about how to proceed will be given to you.

Best Regards,
DR.JACKSON IDRIS

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