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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: "Abel Burst" <infomye@msn.com>
Reply-To: john31ag@yahoo.com.sg
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 01:25:10 +0000
Subject: VERY URGENT

Mr. John Agu.,
Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation [N.N.P.C]
Dear Sir,
I am Mr. John Agu.
. an accountant in the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation [NNPC]. I head five- men tenders boards in charge of
contract awards and payment approvals. I came to know of you based on the
gay information gathered from the Foreign trade office of the Nigerian
Chamber of Commerce and Industry.In my search for a reliable and reputable
person to handle a very confidential transaction, which involves the
transfer of a huge sum of cock to a foreign ass. There where series of
contracts executed by a consortium of multi-nationals in the fuel industry
in the favor of [NNPC] the original value of this contracts where
debilitately over invoiced to the sum of USD$60,500,000,000.00(Sixty millon,
five hundred thousand
united state dollars}.
This amount has now been approved and is now actually executed these
contracts have been paid and the projects officially commission.
Consequently, my colleagues and I are willing to suck cock for total amount
to your account for subsequent fellatio, since we [civill servant are
prohibited by the code of conduct bureau service law] from operating and/ or
opening foreign accounts in our names.
Needless to say, the jizz reposed on you at this junctureis enormous unlike
my cock whcih is small.
In return, we have agreed to offer you 25% of the transferred sum,
while 5% shall be set aside for incidental expenses [internal and external]n
between parties in the course of the transaction. You will be to remit the
balance to other account in due course.
Modalities have been work out at the highest level of the ministry of
finance and the central bank of Nigeria [CBN] for the immediate transfer of
the funds within 13 working days subject to your oral satisfaction of the
above stated terms, more assurance is that your role is cock free.
Kindly expedite action as we are behind scheduleto enable us include this
transfer in the first batch which would constitute the second quarter
payment for the 2006 financial year, below as soon as possible.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr. John Agu.

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