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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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• 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.
  • +2348061289773 (Nigeria, 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.
  • patrickbkdraft@aol.com

Fraud email example:

From: "patbkdraft@terra.es" <patbkdraft@terra.es>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:39:07 +0100 (MET)
Subject: RE: PAYMENT OF YOUR OUTSTANDING DEBT VIA CERTIFIED



RE: PAYMENT OF YOUR OUTSTANDING DEBT VIA CERTIFIED
INTERNATIONAL BANK DRAFT

=20

Attn: Beneficiary=20
=20
=20
This is to inform you that the Presidency has stepped into the payment of y=
our contract / inheritance fund.
The instruction to this Board to authorized your payment was given by the P=
resident himself Alhaji
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua following intelligence report on contract payment he re=
ceived which revealed that the
lower offices and department including somedepartments of Central Bank of N=
igeria (CBN) are engaging in the=20
practice of payment delays through unnecessary use of bureaucratic office p=
rocesses andimposition of unauthorized fees.=20
This apart has been allegations that some officials of NNPC and CBN deliber=
ately divert funds approved with the name of a
beneficiary to accounts that were not given by the known contractor/ inheri=
tant after the due processing
and approval of such payment.=20

To avoid and curtail such, official misconduct and deliberate delay of fore=
ign contractor=E2=80=99s payment under
one flimsy reason or the other, the President of the Country therefore mand=
ated this office to raise
contractor=E2=80=99s and inheritance payment and ensure that such payments =
are received by the beneficiary within a
short period of five (5) days from the day of notice Based on the informati=
on contained in your payment=20
files and records submitted to us from NNPC, CBN, and FMF your name was in =
the list of Category =E2=80=9CA=E2=80=9D
contractors whose payments have been verified and approved with the records=
indicating that your payment
has long been over due. The directive from the President based on all these=
findings is that this
office should make immediately uninterrupted payment of your contract/inher=
itance fund direct from the
Federal Treasury. Other offices including CBN earlier handling your payment=
has been advised to hand over to
this office to avoid duplication of efforts.=20

This panel hereby uses this medium to congratulate you and heartfully thank=
you for your patience and
understanding during all this years of delays on yourcontract/inheritance f=
und.=20

In respect of this, this office held a meeting with the representatives of =
concerned government bodies
during which your contract file and other information of your payment were =
submitted. After going through
your file a lot of official irregularities, impending stop orders and compl=
exities surrounding the payment
were discovered. This office and the concerned bodies unanimously decided a=
nd approved that your contract
payment will be raised in Certified International Bank Draft. The draft wil=
l be raised either in your name or
in the name of your Company as the beneficiary. As soon as the draft is rai=
sed and signed off by you, you
will be required to present the draft at your bank for confirmation and cre=
diting of fund into your account.
This will take 3-5 days of depositing of draft in your bank.=20

Finally, I have tried reaching you by telephone but unsuccessful, I will ad=
vise you to call me in
regards to this, so that I will intimate you more in regards to your contra=
ct payment.=20
Reconfirm your details to me so that I can verify that you are the genuine =
beneficiary of the sum. Further
details concerning your payment will be given to you once you contact the u=
nder signed on EMAIL.=20

Dr.Patrick Azziza=20
Accountant General of the Federation=20
TEL: +234-8061289773=20
EMAIL: patrickbkdraft@aol.com=20





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