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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: "john odeh" <johnodeh_cca@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: johnodeh_cca@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:07:25 +0100
Subject: #MATTURED BUSINESS TRANSACTION#

FROM THE DESK OF
JOHN ODEH
NNPC


I am John Odeh, Chairman of Contract Award and Verification Panel setup
by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). I got your contact
from the Nigeria Chambers of commerce and industries, and after thorough
enquiries and deliberations, I and my colleagues decided to contact you
for a very confidential business transaction of mutual benefit.

During our verification exercise, we came across an over-invoiced
contract(Contract No: NNPC/PED/1473/97). This contract was awarded in
July,1997 and completed in August, 1999, and the original contractor
has since been paid his contract sum leaving the over-invoiced sum of
US$65.5m(Sixty Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars) This amount have been left floating in our account with the Central
Bank of Nigeria, until our recent discovery. My colleagues and I have
decided
to seek for the assistance of a reliable foreign partner into whose
account the fund will be transferred into for our own use. If this proposal
is
acceptable to you, a Deed of Transfer of the above contract will be
obtained on your behalf, to empower you as the legal beneficiary of the
contract
and the sum to be transferred.

All necessary and relevant documents will be procured for the release
and transfer of the fund into your nominated account. An application for
foreign exchange allocation will be made on your behalf from my office to
the
federal ministry of finance (FMF) and the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN)
for the subsequent release and transfer of the fund into your nominated
account.Be informed that we are working in collaboration with top officials
of
the federal ministry of finance and the Central Bank of to fax us your
nominated bank account details and your direct telephone and fax numbers.

Please treat this transaction with top priority and remember to keep it
as confidential as possible.
As soon as we receive your response, more details about how to proceed
will be given to you.

We await your prompt response.

Best Regards,
JOHN ODEH

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