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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:
  • "is 100% risk-free" (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.
  
• 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.
  • +31630498946 (Netherlands, 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.
  • richardassociate@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: johnsonharry5@aim.com <johnsonharry5@aim.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 12:46:15 +0100
Subject: URGENT FOREIGN PARTNER IS NEED

NNPC LAGOS ANNEX OFFICE
VICTORIA ISLAND,
LAGOS NIGERIA


Dear Sir,
May I crave your indulgence to open this business discussion by a formal letter of this sort? It is pertinent
that a business of this magnitude should have commenced properly with a formal meeting of you and us
to enable us know ourselves, have a fore knowledge of the nature of the business, discuss and acquaint
ourselves with the responsibilities and functions of parties concerned, and appropriate shares
accordingly. However, for time factor, confidentiality and personality of people involved here in Nigeria,
we choose this approach for the remittance of this Twenty Million U.S. Dollars (US$20.0M). Please bear
with us for making the initial contact through e-mail. But my partners are insisting for a meeting in order
not to fall into a wrong hand again, in other hand thinking of our position we are holding which may not
need allow such meeting becuase of the Present government of nigeria.
I am DR. JOHNSON H. EKESON, we are members of the special committee for Budget and Planning of
the Ministry of Petroleum. This committee is principally concerned with contract appraisal and the
approval of the contracts in order of priorities as regards capital projects of the past military government of
Nigeria.
With our positions, we have successfully secured for ourselves this sum of Twenty Million U.S. Dollars
(US$20.0M). This amount was accumulated through undeclared windfall sales of crude oil during the gulf
war.
Hence together with two of our top officials at the NIGERIA National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), we
plan to transfer this amount of money into a secure overseas account by awarding a sort of contract from
the NNPC. To this effect I have been given the mandate by my colleagues to contact you and ask for
your assistance. What we need from you is to provide a nice account in which the funds will be
transferred. My colleagues and I have agreed to compensate you or the owner of the account used for
this transaction with 30% of the total amount remitted. We shall have 65% and the remaining 5% reserved
for taxes and other miscellaneous expenses in your country.
We need a reliable and trustworthy person or a reputable company to do business with hence this letter
to you. So if you can prove yourself to be trusted and interested in this deal then we are prepared to do
business with you. What we want from you is the assurance that you will let us have our share if this
amount (US$20.0M) is transferred into your account. If this proposal is okay by you, then reply through
my alternate email bellow urgently, so that we can set the ball rolling and negotiate the modalities
involved.
Kindly, treat as very important and strictly confidential, I honestly assure you that this transaction is 100%
risk-free. We referred you to CONTACT us through our international representative Lawyer because of
our positions we must not come open to discus with you but through our reliable lawyer Name Barister
Richard Nelson based in the netherland.As you may intrested call our Lawyer with the below information
for more details.

Contact address,
Names: Richard Nelson
Email: richardassociate@aim.com
Tel: +31-630 498 946
Fax: +31-847 716 352
Adress: Blenheim Tower,Westerdoksdijk,
103 AE Amsterdam the Netherland.

I look forward to your response through our lawyer and expected your co-operation and God bless you.
Regards,

DR. JOHNSON H. EKESON

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