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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Maitama S.A." <maliu@voila.fr> (may be fake)
Reply-To: malium@voila.fr
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:43:09 -0700
Subject: REQUEST FOR URGENT MEETING

Dear Sir,
I am Mr. M. S. Aliu, and I am sending this email to you from Singapore, where I just arrived.
I am a citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and I worked with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), as the Procurement director.

My job availed me the opportunity of handling really huge sums of money, as earmarked by the Government for organizing and conducting the just concluded general election in my country, which brought in a new civilian administration.

Sir, I need to hold an urgent meeting with you in order to forge a partnership for investment purposes in South Korea.
I have in my custody, the sum of US$8M (Eight Million United States Dollars). I made this money out of the budgetary allocations for the procurement of electoral materials from South Africa.
However, I immediately moved the fund to a country here in the South East Asia, which name I shall disclose to you in due course.

So I am not asking you to help me make any claim, and I am not asking you to send me any money; I want to negotiate with you one on one, on how to get this fund into Korea, and what investment opportunities are available to me in South Korea.

Please, I do not have much time. I just ran out of my country to avoid being investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) which is rounding up INEC officials and other past government officials for questioning and probe.
So as it stands today, I am not going back to Nigeria till the next few years, when everything must have died down.

On that note, I want to get everything sorted out urgently. This is because, I left my wife and two kids in Nigeria. So I need to get them relocated and settled as soon as we get this fund invested in South Korea.

For your assistance, I would let you have 15% share in the investment(s).
But be reminded that the day to day running of the investment would be on your shoulders, though my signature or consent would be needed in all major decision makings.

Please call me urgently, and let us have an appointment. Let me know how soon you could arrive here. It is very urgent.

Yours sincerely,
M.S. Aliu.
Tel: +6590169004.

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