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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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Fraud email example:

From: "DESMOND JOHNSON" <mailing4des@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mails4paul@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 21:01:22 -0700
Subject: Re: How U doing?

NATIONAL ELECTRIC POWER AUTHORITY
FEDERAL SECRETARIAT
IKOYI-LAGOS.

FROM THE DESK OF: PAUL UZOH

I am the Chairman Contract Review Committee of National Electric Power Authority (NEPA).
Although this proposal might come to you as a surprise since it is coming from someone
you do not know or ever seen before, but after due deliberations with my colleagues,
I decided to contact you based on Intuition.

We are soliciting for your humble and confidential assistance to take custody of
twenty-five Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars.{US$25,500,000.00}.
This sum (US$25.5M) is an over invoiced contract sum which is currently in an offshore
payment account of the Central Bank of Nigeria as an unclaimed contract entitlement
which can easily be withdrawn or drafted or paid to any recommended beneficiary by my
committee.

On this note, you will be presented as a contractor to NEPA who has executed a
contract to a tune of the above sum and has not been paid.

Proposed Sharing Pattern (%):

1. 60% for my colleagues and me

2. 30% for you as a partner/fronting for us.

3. 10% for expenses that may be incurred by both parties during the cause of this transaction.

Our law prohibits civil servants from operating foreign accounts, hence we are contacting you.

If this proposal satisfies you, do respond as soon as possible with the following information:

1. The name you wish to use as the beneficiary of the fund.

2. Your Confidential Phone and Fax Numbers to enable me have voice contact with you and
also send to you the "National Electric Power Authority's (N.E.P.A) Foreign contractors payment
application form as well as the detailed information regarding this transaction.

Further discussion will be centered on how the fund shall be transfered and full details on how to
accomplish this great opportunity of ours.

Best regards,

DR. PAUL UZOH.

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