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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "requires utmost trust" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "there is no risk involved" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "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: "harry odibo" <h_odibo01@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 03:23:48 +0100
Subject: Re: response needed

Dear Sir,

I am Raphael Odibo, the Chairman, Contract Award Commitee (CAC), Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). I came across your contact from the
internet while searching for a liable foreigner who could assist us in a
business that requires utmost trust.

We, the CAC, are conducting a full-quarter reconciliation and revalidation
exercise on contract files that were destroyed in the fire incident that
burnt down our Lagos office in December, 2003, and, as a mandate of the
Presidency, to pay all owed foreign contractors whose contract payments have
been suspended pending the reconciliation and approval of this Committee. We
would therefore like to add your/company's name amongt the contractors owed
by the Government of Nigeria for contract executed for the NNPC. Hence this
mail for assistance.

We will let you have the complete information and the practicability of this
project when we have your consent to assist.

While you take time to consider this proposition, we would like to assure
you there is no risk involved and that you are dealing with gentlemen with
names and reputations to protect.

We look forward to receiving your earliest response, in any case.

Regards.

Rapahel Odibo.

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