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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:
  • "% will be for you" (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)
  • "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "is highly confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "nigeria national petroleum corporation" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • mrfracibrownnnpcnig@shuf.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3amrfracibrownnnpcnig@shuf.com

Fraud email example:

From: "mr fraci brown" <fracibrown9@torba.com>
Reply-To: mrfracibrownnnpcnig@shuf.com
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 06:29:38 +0200
Subject: RE: URGENT BUSINESS


*THIS INFORMATION IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE PERSON OR ENTITY TO WHICH IT IS
ADDRESSED AND MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR PRIVILEGED MATERIAL. ANY
REVIEW, RETRANSMISSION, DISSEMINATION, OR OTHER USE OF OR TAKING OF ANY
ACTION IN RELIANCE UPON THIS INFORMATION BY PERSONS OR ENTITIES OTHER THAN
THE INTENDED RECIPIENT IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS IN ERROR,
PLEASE DELETE THE COPY.*

* *


*From: Mr. Fraci Brown
Account Department,
Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)
Private Email:mrfracibrownnnpcnig@shuf.com<Email%3Amrfracibrownnnpcnig@shuf.com>
*

*Attn: Sir/Madam*


*It is with trust and confidence that I make this urgent and important
business proposal to you. I am senior accountant with the Nigerian national
petroleum corporation (NNPC) here in Lagos. I have been assigned by my
colleagues to seek a foreign partner in the transfer of the sum of
US$7,500.000 (Seven Million Five Hundred United States Dollars) only. This
money arose from a deliberate over - invoicing of a contract awarded by our
corporation in 2006.


We have been safeguarding this money since then, awaiting an appropriate
time when the money can be transferred into a foreign nominated bank,
pending our arrival for the sharing and utilization with the owner of the
account. Now the new civilian government of president Umar Musa Yar'adua has
ordered that all debts owed foreign contractors by the government be paid
immediately, on the strength of this order, we wish to take advantage of it
to present you or your company as one of the contractors owed by the federal
government.

Meanwhile, we have agreed that the money will be shared thus: 60% will be
for us (my colleagues and I), 35% will be for you for collaborating and
providing the necessary assistance while the remaining 5% has been mapped
out for any incidental expenses that might be incurred in the course of this
transaction.

Note, that the nature of your company's business is irrelevant to this
transaction as all arrangements have been concluded for a successful and
hitch- free transaction. Note that this money is still in suspense account
of my corporation (NNPC) with Central Bank of Nigeria. You are required to
forward the following information if you accept to assist :

(1) Your full name.
(2) your company name and address
(3) your phone and fax numbers
(4) your bank name and address ,phone and fax numbers
(5) your account number and account name/beneficiary

we have taken measures to ensure that this is executed in a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. We have
estimated that this transaction will be concluded within 14 working days on
receipt of the above information.

Contact me immediately through my private email:. **
mrfracibrownnnpcnig@shuf.com* <mrfracibrownnnpcnig@shuf.com>* signifying
your interest in this business. This information is highly confidential and
urgent. Further detail will be communicated to you as soon as I receive
your acceptance response.

Best regards.*

*Mr. Fraci Brown.
*

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