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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:
  • "million 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)
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "abuja" (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 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.
  • drwilliam.kalu@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Dr William Kalu <drwilliam.kalu@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:12:17 +0100
Subject: REQUEST FOR URGENT & CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP



Dr.WILLIAM KALUEMAIL:(drwilliam.kalu@yahoo.com) Abuja NIGERIA.
ATTENTION:
REQUEST FOR URGENT & CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP FORTHE TRANSFER OF $30,000,000.00
I presume this letter will not be a surprise to you, sinceWe have not met before; your contact address came to methrough a friend of mine, who is a member assisting withtrade development commission of your embassy here inNigeria. Truly he always says well about you in terms ofbusiness network services, but I never tell him about thisrequest.
I am Dr.WILLIAM KALU, an employee of the federalgovernment of Nigeria owned corporation, Nigeria nationalpetroleum corporation (NNPC).
Few years ago, the federal government of Nigeria instructedthe corporation (NNPC) to award contract on behalf of thegovernment for the building of a refinery in the northernpart of Nigeria. In respect of this I and three of myco-employees of the corporation was appointed as thecontract awarding committee, to deliberate on the bestforeign companies to handle the project. And after muchdeliberation within members of the committee, the contractwas awarded to sale drilling Ag of Austria. But beforeawarding this contract, we the members of the committee hassecretly agreed to over-invoice and inflate the actualcontract value with the tune of US$ 30,000,000.00 (Thirtymillion dollars) which we shall use a reliable foreigncompany or person to claim.
Meanwhile, the contract has been completed and commissioned,the actual contract value has been paid to the contractorthat executed the contract, leaving this over-invoiced sumof US$30 million dollars. Now we have decided to choose youas a company to claim this money, we will per sent you as acontractor that supplied electrical equipments, paints andall the coatings used in the refinery. You will be in frontto get all the necessary approvals and formalities that willjustifies you as the actual beneficiary from the concernedgovernment ministries before the fund will be transferredinto your bank account. We will sub-contract the project toyou and get your company name enlisted in the governmentcontract award blue print, and you will be recognized as alegitimate contractor and beneficiary of this US$30mdollars. This we will do with some documents andinformation’s we will require from you. On youracceptanceto take up this project with us, we have jointly agreed toshare the funds as follows:
You will take 30% of the total sum transferred into youraccount, which is US$30m dollars, for your contributiontowards the success of this transaction.10% will be setaside for deduction of all the expenses that will beencountered by you and us during the cause of processing thenecessary approvals/documents from the governmentministries, NNPC, Federal Ministry of finance and Centralbank of Nigeria for the transfer of the funds into youraccount.
While 60% will be given to us on arrival in your country,which we hope to use part of it to import goods from yourcountry or invest in any lucrative business or buying ofproperties.
Please bear in mind that this transaction is 100% risk free,as we have done our homework accordingly. We shall commencethe transfer immediately we hear from you, be informed thattime is very important in this transaction.
Can we take up this project together, kindly ask for moredetails by contacting us through this email drwilliam.kalu@yahoo.combut let truthfulness and confidentiality be our watch word.
Best regards,
Dr.WILLIAM KALU
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