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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • albert_young2@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ALBERT YOUNG" <albertyounga@myway.com>
Reply-To: albert_young2@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:14:45 -0500 (EST)
Subject: DEAR SIR!!!!


DEAR SIR,I am Dr Albert Young, Chairman foreign contract payment committee of the Federal ministry of Agriculture,NigeriaBy virtue of my commitee and the power bestowed on us by theFederal Government of Nigeria to scrutunize all contract executed between January to december 2002 by foreign contractor and recommend them for payment , We carefully and deliberately over invoiced some contracts in the Ministry of Agriculture to the tune of USD38.5m(thirty-eight million,five hundred thousand united states dollar)All the contract awarded and executed within the period,and still awaiting payment,including the above over-inflated sum has been duely certified and recommended for payment by my commission to the federal Government Already,payments are about to be made by virture of the committee's recommendation hence, I want you to assist me with a foreign account anywhere that can be used to receive the over invoiced sum for our mutual benefits since the law of my country does not
permit us as a civil servants to own a foreign bank account while in the service.We have agreed that whoever provided us with offshore bank account will be compensated with 25% of the total sumI will send you details of the contract awarded and executed as soon as i confirm your interest to assist To commence this transaction, we require you to indicate yourinterest by a return e-mail to albert_young2@hotmail.com andenclose the following informations:-1)Your full name and address. This will enable me to make job descriptions in your name2) Your private telephone number for effective communication.3) Occupation and Nationality.4) The nominated account name and account numbers where the fund will be paid into Pls send your response to my private email address albert_young2@hotmail.com for more informative discusionsRegards, ALBERT YOUNG

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