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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:
  • ",500,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
  • "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 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.
  • obally_oscar@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • financeministry_196697@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Obally Oscar <obally_oscar@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:32:30 -0300
Subject: Urgent Pls.



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Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
Corporate Annex Office, Victoria Island, Lagos,Nigeria.
Cablegram: Napetcor
website:http://www.nnpcgroup.com/board.htm
(Email:obally_oscar@yahoo.com

Dear Sir,

I am Obally Oscar, the GED, Refineries & Petrochemicals of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) My colleagues have mandated me to transfer the sum of $88 Million USD, recovered from an over-invoiced contracts involving the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation[NNPC] into several private accounts in Europe and United States. A total sum of $75,500,000.00 USD has been transferred before the emergence of this present Civilian Administration (President Umaru Yaradua) leaving the balance of $12,500,000.00 USD which we now have access following the failure of our predecessors to complete the transfer before they bowed out of office leaving us with this golden opportunity to transfer it for our benefit.

I have made proper arrangement/documentation to transfer the balance ($12,500,000.00 USD) which is retained in a coded account of the NNPC with the Eco Bank of Nigeria. We are soliciting for your help and trust, to get this fund transferred. We cannot complete this transaction smoothly without the participation of a foreign partner who will provide a viable foreign bank account for the transfer. As a civil servant, we are not permitted by the Nigerian Civil Service law to own or operate any foreign accounts while still in service. The remittance of the funds requires little documentation that would be completed as soon as you provide us with detailed information for the transfer. The information required are as follows:
i. A viable Bank Account, presumably an empty account.
ii. A named beneficiary of the account (i.e. personal or company’s account.
iii.Name and address of Company that stands as the Beneficiary.
iv. Private telephone number to enable us be communicating when necessary. All modalities have been put in place for a smooth transaction of this business. It is absolutely risk-free.
We have covered this transaction with adequate contract and external credit documents from the beginning. YOUR RUMENARATION FOR THE ASSISTANCE IS NEGOTIABLE ON THE RECEIPT OF YOUR REPLY.

More so, we will need your advice on how to invest our own share of the money into Real Estate Properties, Hotel and Tourism business in your country. We expect that the transaction will not take more than ten working days. Reply to my personal Email:financeministry_196697@yahoo.it as i have mandated by my colleagues to carry out the transaction. Thanks.

Yours faithfully,

Obally Oscar

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