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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: "Mr Michael Ahamba" <michaelahamba01@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: michaelahamba001@yahoo.co.in
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 01:20:52 +0000
Subject: INVESTMENT

Dear Sir/Madam,


It is a pleasure to contact you through this medium to introduce our
esteemed Committee, the Presidential (Petroleum) Task Force Committee
(PPTFC), set up by the present democratic Government in Nigeria, to
supervise the sales and awards of Crude Oil Lifting contracts through the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to you.


We write to seek your possible collaboration in securing a total sum of
$50,300,000.00 (Fifty Million,three hundred thousand United State Dollars),
to a reliable corporate bank account overseas for mutual disbursement
between the parties involved.


This money is the excess sum we realized fro sales of Nigerian Bonny Light
Crude Oil above the government regulated price margins as a result of price
fluctuation, which accurate sales figures were never rendered to our
government for reason you now know as we are poorly remunerated Civil
Servants in Nigeria.

At the successful conclusion of this business deal, you will be entitled to
10% of the total sum remitted to your bank account for your collaboration.
2% will be used to take care of all expenses that might be incurred by both
parties during this transaction including cost of fund transfer/taxes etc.

If you are interested and capable to collaborate with us in this regard, as
I hope you will, please contact me immediately by return tel. 234-8055417924
and I will furnish you with detailed information.

Awaiting your earliest response.

Best Regards,

Michael Ahamba

Committee Secretary, PPTFC

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