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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:
  • "into your nominated bank account" (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)
  • "a diplomat " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist 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.
  • livinusajonumahnnpc@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Livinus Ajonumah" <livinusajonumah@legwork.com.ng>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:38:07 -0700
Subject: URGENT PROFITVENTURE


*Sir,*
* *
*Foremostly,I want to apologize for the inconveniences this letter might
have caused you. After due consultations, you were recommended to me by an
in-law who recently relinquished his position as a diplomat in your
country.My in-law confided in me of your capability and reliability to
handle and safeguard the understated transaction.*
*I am Mr. Livinus Ajonumah, the Director of Finance and Accounts of the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in collaboration with the
Director of procurements and contract awards of the (NNPC). Following the
meeting held in Oct 25th, 2005 by the management staffs of the Products and
Pipelines Marketing Company (PPMC), the House Committee on contract
allocations and the Honourable Minister of Petroleum Resources resulted in
collaborating with honest, trustful and capable foreign partners to handle
the sub-contract of supplying of 30 Million barrels of petrol following the
break down of our National Refineries which caused severe scarcity of fuel
in the country then.*
* *
*In this vein, a contract was awarded to us through our Corporation in the
oil sector in oct last three years (2005}. We sub-contracted a firm from
Venezuela that took up the contract. In the process of the contract, the
contract was over-invoiced by adding (two dollars and fifty cents) per
barrel and the total over-invoiced sum came to USD$125 Million.(One hunderd
twenty five million U.S.Dollars). The actual contract value has been paid
off to the Venezuelan firm as the contract has been fully completed by Sept
2006 while it is the over-invoiced amount that is left.*
* *
*Sir,we strongly solicit for your assistance by helping take receipt of the
funds into your nominated bank account in your country where we can transfer
this fund. We expect that you send us the full contact info of the bank as
well. Our fear is that we may be discharged from our position anytime due to
the political instabilities in this country (Nigeria) and we are contacting
you for the fact that we are civil servants and are not allowed by law and
the anti-corruption task force to operate foreign accounts.We have concluded
modalities for the transfer of this fund which is 100% risk free,so far as
you are receiving the payment as a sister company to the contractors in
Venezuela. Please let us have your phone/fax number for easy contact. Reply
through my private E-mail:
**livinusajonumahnnpc@yahoo.fr*<livinusajonumahnnpc@yahoo.fr>
* *
* *
*Thanks for your anticipated co-operation.*



*Best regard
Mr Livinus Ajonumah. *

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