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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:
  • "for easy and confidential communication" (a common phrase found 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.
  • tessien147@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Chief.Tanko Essien" <tessien4777@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:28:48 +0100
Subject: very urgent


CHIEF TANKO ESSIEN
50 AWOLOWO RD,
IKEJA,LAGOS,
NIGERIA.
Email:tessien147@yahoo.com

Dear,

I am a top official with NIGERIAN POWER HOLDING CORPORATION(NPHC) .After
due deliberation with my colleagues i decided to forward to you this
business proposal.We want a reliable person who could assist us to transfer
the sum of US$12million into his or her account.This fund resulted from an
over-invoiced bill from a contract awarded by us under the budget allocation
to my ministry and the bill was executed commissioned,signed and the
contractor was paid his actual cost of the contract,we are now left with the
balance of US$12MILLION as the over-invoiced amount we have deliberately
over estimated for our own use but under our protocol division .
Civil servants are forbidden to operate or own foreign account in
Nigeria,this is why i contact you for an assistance.We have agreed to share
the money as follows
(35% for you account owner) (60% for us) (5% for expenses external and
internal ).This transaction is very much free from all successfully executed
and we the officials involved in the deal have put in many years in service
to our ministries.We have been exercising patience for this opportunity for
so long and to most of us this is a life time opportunity ,we cannot afford
to miss.
To get this fund paid into your account , you are required to send the
following informations your bankers full address ,telephone numbers,your
bank account numbers, your private telephone number for easy and
confidential communication.These information will enable us seek approval of
the fund you may be required to sign the fund release authority in our
national bank.Three officials will come to your country to arrange for our
share .All these will only take us 7 working days to transfer this fund into
your account right from the day we receive requirements.Let honesty and
trust be our watch word throughout this transaction. reply to :
tessien147@yahoo.com<http://in.f86.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=tessien147@yahoo.com>
yours faithfully,
Chief.Tanko Essien

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