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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "awal ibrahim" <awalibrahim2006@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: awalibrahim05@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 05:11:29 +0000
Subject: PLEASE RESPOND URGENTLY

Dr.Dr.Awal Ibrahim
Lagos-Nigeria
E-MAIL:

Dear Sir,

I am contacting you in my capacity as the chairman of the contract
Review/Audit committee secrutinizing all executed contract awarded by
previous Military government of Nigeria.My colleague and I have uncovered a
floating amount of US$20M{Twenty mILLION Dollars only} without a clear
beneficiary owning to a delibrate act of over invoicing and inflating of
contract value by some government officials.

This amount {US$20M},has already been approved,for payment by the ministry
of Mines,pawer and Steel and is secure under contract
No:MMA/FGN/V33/ALSC-39.Job completion Certificate No:NP.668473896MM/C,of
17th oct.,2000.As top civil servants we are not authorized to operate
foreign bank account and this is why we want to use your bank account to
transfer this money outside my country.

We have accepted you as our foreign partner and will regularize the
approvals to you as the trust beneficiary of the contract sum.As soon as we
receive your acceptance,we shall inform you of the necessary requirement
from you to facilitate the transfer.

Let us use this opportunity and export the benefit of this sum.We have
resolved to give you 20% of the total sum as compensation for your
assistance,75% is for me and my partners here in my country,5% is set aside
for the expenses both parties will incure during the course of the
transfer.Note that this should be confidential.

Yours Faithfully,

Dr.Awal Ibrahim.

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