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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: "bernard udoma" <udoma2005@msn.com>
Reply-To: benudoma2005@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:52:42 +0000
Subject: GREAT OPPORTUNITY

Dear Friend,
I am Bernard Udoma, the Director of Finance in The Foreign Payment
department of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). I am
writing to intimate you with a business which needs a foreign Company's or
personal assistance to execute.
In my department, we have US$112.5m (One Hundred and Twelve Million,Five
Hundred Thousand US Dollars Only) over invoice bill after auditing. This
money arose from deliberate over-invoiced bill which we added during last,
Military regime to a foreign Company. The (original contact value has been
paid after concluding the contact, as first instalment payment.
Now, the government in power has directed that all contracts duely completed
during and after the last regime be paid off before December 2005. It is
this remaining over-value sum as above, that I and other official in the
various Department of the ministry have now decided to transfer into your
account for safety, and subsequently disburse in the percentage as
follows:30% for you, the account owner, 60% for us the partners in Nigeria
and 10% for taxation and any expenses that might be incured during the
course of this transaction. Moreso, this trasaction will only take us
fourteen working days. The request for a foreign account is occasioned by
the fact, that civil servant in nigeria are by law precluded from operating
off-shore accounts. If you are interested in this joint business you are
required to send an account number, where the money will be remitted. The
bank address, name, location, fax and telephone number for easy
communication. Note that these information should be sent through email for
security purposes.
1. After the final transaction, three officials will be coming to your
country to take care of our own fund.
2. Note you are expected to maintain confidentiality of the project that we
have, as we have putting in many years of meticulous services to the
government with maturity, top most secrecy and urgency, please reply
urgently through email for intact receiving. There is no risk whatsoever,
while we assure you of maximum security, you must endeavour to keep this
business confidential and secret till the end.
Thank you very much for your anticipated co-operation.
Yours sincerely,
DR. BERNARD UDOMA

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