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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: "gerald smith" <info@geraldsmith.net>
Reply-To: okilo@ummah.org
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 03:03:37 +0000
Subject: N.D.D.C URGENT ATTENTION

28TH JANUARY 2005

Jerald Okilo
Secretary to the Niger Delta Development Commission,
Old Secretariat Complex,
Victorial-Island, Lagos.Email:okilo@ummah.org

Dear Sir/Madam

I know this email will reach you as a surprise, but need not to worry as we
are using the only secured and confidential medium available to seek for
foreign assistance/partnership in a business transaction which is of mutual
benefit.I am a highly placed official of Government in Nigeria and also
afounding member of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party(PDP).My committee -
The Niger Delta Development Commission(NDDC)which is incharge of managing
and supervising the disbursement of oil sales revenues for the Nigerian
government which covers payment to foreign and local contractors that have
executed contracts for our country.The revenue under our control runs
into several hundred of millions of dollars monthly.Myself and other
colleagues in the NDDC are currently in need of aforeign partner with whose
bankaccount we shall transfer the sum of Eighteen Million Five Hundred
Thosand UnitedStates Dollars($18.5m).

This fund was accrued from various over invoicing on foreign contractors'
payments made over the years. The Total fund is presently waiting inthe
Government Account named CBN/FGN INDEPENDENT REVENUE account at the Central
Bank of Nigeria.However, by virtue of our position as civil servants and
members of the NDDC, we cannot acquire this funds in our name. This is
because as top civil servants, we are not allowed by law ofthe land to own
or operate bank accounts outside our country for now. I have been delegated
as a matter of trust by my colleagues, to look for an overseas partner in
whose account we would transfer the fund,hence the reason for this mail.We
shall be transferring the money to your account with your company as the
beneficiary, under the guise that you are being paid for a contract which
you/your company executed for our country through the NDDC and any other
Federal Ministry that we decide to use for this purpose.For your support and
partnership, please reply me to negotiate your fees or the percentage you
wish to be paid when the funds arrive your bank account. You must however
note that this transaction, with regards to our disposition to continue
with you, is subject to these terms , Firstly, our conviction of your
transparency.Secondly, that you treat this transaction with utmost secrecy
and confidentiality.

Finally and above all, that you will provide an account over which you have
absolute control. The transaction, although discrete, is legitimate and
there is no risk or legal lliability either to ourselves or yourself now or
in the future as we have put in place the neccesary machinery that will
ensure a hitch free transfer into your account upon acceptance.

The transfer will be effected to your account within ten tofourteen
(10-14)working days from the date we reach an agreement. You should furnish
me with your contact telephone and fax numbers in your first response.

I am looking forward to doing business with you and do solicit your
confidentiality in this transaction, Please mail your response to me through
my confidential email address(okilo@ummah.org) for me to update you on our
plans as to how we intend to actualize this transaction.

Yours Sincerely,
Jerald Okilo
(okilo@ummah.org)

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