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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: "LIMAN WAZIRI" <lwaziri300@msn.com>
Reply-To: limanwaz@o2.pl
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 09:57:49 +0000
Subject: Trustee.

FROM ENGINEER LIMAN WAZIRI.
NIGERIA NATIONAL PETROLEUM COPORATION
RE: CONTRACT AGREEMENT.

Dear Sir,

I wish to acknowledge and recognize your importance in this business
transaction which will take us only one month. I am a member of contract
awarding committee which I am the chairman.

A contract was awarded to foreign company to lay pipes from Port- Harcourt
to Warri refineries which was awarded in the year 2000. The contract was 60
million United State dollars but being a
contract awarding committee chairman, I over inflated it to the tone of 75.5
million United State Dollars. The work has been completed and the company
has been paid by Nigeria National Petroleum Co-operation and they have
gone.What is left now is 15.5 million United State Dollars which was kept in
one of the Finance/Security Company set up by the Federal Government that is
in charge of paying foreign contractors.

I need your assistance to assist me conclude this golden opportunity and to
secure the fund into your possession, because being the chairman, I cannot
do it alone without the help of a foreigner who will stand as the contractor
who executed the job. So furnish me with the following particulars for me to
perfect the remmittance of this fund to your posession.

1, YOUR FULL NAMES.

2,YOUR COMPANY NAME (IF ANY)

3, YOUR RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS.

4, YOUR PRIVATE PHONE/FAX NUMBERS.

5,YOUR AGE.

Please you should keep the business very secret and confidential to
yourself. Do not tell anybody even your wife or your children till the money
gets to your account. Then I will join you in your country for a meeting and
subsequently, you introduce me into a profitable business where I will
invest my own share of the fund.

I have set aside 100% to be shared between me and you. I being the contract
awarding committee chairman will get 50%, you that is assisting me will get
40% then 10% will be shared between both parties for any expenses we may
meet on the way during the transaction.

Please keep it very secret and confidential to yourself.

Awaiting your urgent response for us to proceed.

Best regards

Liman Waziri.

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