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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: samueleze <samueleze@frenzysoftball.com>
Reply-To: samueleze@freenet.de
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:18:54 -0600
Subject: Enquiry

FROM THE DESK OF:THE CHAIRMAN, TENDERS BOARD,
F.M.P.M.R.
Dr. samuel eze
E-mail: samueleze@freenet.de

CONFIDENTIAL / URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL

SIR



It is with trust and confidence that I write to reveal this business proposal to you. I was assigned by two of my colleagues to seek for a foreign partner who will assist us in providing a convenient account in a designated bank overseas for the transfer of US$28,600,000.00 ( Twenty Eight Million, Six Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only), pending our arrival in your country for utilization and disbursement of the fund with the owner of the account.

I am the Chairman, Tenders Board of the Federal Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Lagos, Nigeria. On 25th January 1996, our Ministry, The Federal Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, awarded a contract of US$200,000,000.00 (Two Hundred Million United
States Dollars only), but my colleagues and I being members of the Contract award Committee over inflated the contract to the tune of US$228,600,000.00 (Two Hundred and Twenty Eight Million, Six Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only), with the intention of sharing the remaining balance of US$ 28,600.000.00
(Twenty Eight Million, Six Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars only) amongst ourselves.

The Contract has been successfully executed and
the actual contractors have just been paid their US$ 200,000,000.00 only in full, leaving a balance of US$28,600,000.00 which we now want to transfer out of the country in our favour, making it look as if the payment for the contract has been completed, since we as Government Officials are not permitted by Law
to operate Foreign bank accounts and secondly, we cannot collect the money from the source because the contract was undertaken by a foreign firm. My olleagues and I havea greed if you/your company can act as the
beneficiary of this fund (US$28,600,000.00), we will

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