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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "confidentiality of this transaction" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "contract award committee" (the name of a person or institution often appearing 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.
  • +2348077939193 (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.
  • abubakar7788@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "YARADUA ABUBAKAR" <abubakar2@barnaul.info>
Reply-To: abubakar7788@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:37:46 -0700
Subject: Business Deal & Mutual Understanding


Business Deal & Mutual Understanding
From the desk of Alhaji Abubakar Yar'Adua,
GMD/Chairman of Contract Award Committee,
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.
Dept:Minerals & Energy,
Tel:+2348077939193,

Dear friend,

I am Alhaji Abubakar Yar'Adua, the present Managing Director and Chairman
of Contract Award Committee of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
(NNPC), in conjunction with my colleague, Engr. Funsho Kupolokun also former
GMD NNPC, write this letter to you as an introduction and extension of our
hands of friendship and establishing a meaningful business relationship with
you.

We got your contact through your country chamber of Commerce and because of
our desires to invest in capital market and other valuable business in your
country, like Oil Refinary,Telecommunication and Real Estate. We feel that
your firms particular sense of global investment would be of immense benefit
to this project.We need a reliable partner that can be trusted with fund of
$60 Million U.S.Dollars and will be able to do all necessary negotiations on
our behalf as our orientation in this area of investment is still
elementary.

With your help we feel certain achivements that will enable our goal of
building the biggest Oil Refinary,Telecommunication and Real Estate in the
globe would come to fruition will shown by your firms commitment to similar
investments. If your interest in this proposal will be of mutual benefit,do
not hesitate to contact us with your personal information,so that we can
commence further discussions,on how to furge ahead. Presently we base in
Nigeria and your replies should come to my private email box (
abubakar7788@yahoo.com), for confidentiality of this transaction.We look
forward to a good business relationship with you.

Best Regards
Alhaji Abubakar Yar'Adua,
GMD/Chairman of Contract Award Committee,
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

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