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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • akpanmbaba23@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ENGINEER AKPAN MBABA" <akpan2mbaba@excite.com> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 03:51:17 -0800
Subject: thanks for your consent

DEAR SIR,
THANKS FOR A GOOD PIECE OF INFORMATION I GATHERED ABOUT YOU IN MY QUEST
TO GET AN HONEST AND TRUST WORTHY PERSON FOR THIS BUSINESS TRANSACTION.
I AM ENGR. AKPAN MBABA,A DIRECTOR GENERAL AND THE CHAIRMAN FOREIGN
CONTRACT TENDER BOARD COMMITEE WITH NIGERIAN LIQUIFIED NATURAL GAS
(NLNG).I HAVE A TOTAL AMOUNT OF $27,000,000.00(TWENTY SEVEN MILLION
DOLLARS)WHICH I WANT TO TRANSFER TO A FOREIGN ACCOUNT FOR SAFE KEEP AND INVESTMENT.

THE MONEY ACCRUED AS A RESULT OF OVER-INVOICING DURING THE CONSTRUCTION
OF THE SECOND PHASE OF THE NIGERIA LIQUIFIED NATURAL GAS PLANT(NLNG)IN
BONNY-PORT HARCOURT,SOUTHERN NIGERIA..HOWEVER,AS A CIVIL SERVANT IN
NIGERIA,WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE FOREIGN BANK ACCOUNTS.I WILL OFFER YOU 20% OF THE TOTAL MONEY,IF YOU CAN BE OF HELP AND PRODUCE BANK ACCOUNTS WHERE THE OUTSTANDING FUNDS WILL BE TRANSFFERED INTO FOR SAFE KEEP AND INVESTMENT

IT MAY INTEREST YOU TO KNOW THAT LATE LAST YEAR,I EXECUTED A SIMILAR
TRANSACTION OF THIS NATURE WITH AN OSAKA-JAPAN BASED MULTI MILLIONARE
BUSINESS WOMAN-MRS.KONAMI YAMAMOTO WITH PHONE NUMBER:819085437498. WHEN
THE MONEY WAS EVENTUALLY TRANSFFERED INTO HER BANK ACCOUNT IN JAPAN,SHE
SUPRISINGLY SEIZED THE WHOLE MONEY WITHOUT REPARTRIATING MY OWN SHARE.

HENCE,DUE TO THIS PAST TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE,YOUR HONESTY AND
TRANSPARENCY IS OF HIGH DEMAND.HOWEVER, DUE TO STRICT CONFIDENTIAL REASONS,YOU ARE REQUIRED TO REPLY THIS LETTER BY INDICATING YOUR INTEREST THROUGH THIS MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS:akpanmbaba23@yahoo.ca, YOU ARE ALSO REQUIRED TO STATE YOUR PERSONAL E-MAIL ADDRESS, FAX NUMBER,PHONE NUMBERS IN YOUR REPLY.I AM EXPECTING YOUR REPLY AND YOUR INTEREST.THANKS.YOURS TRULY,
BEST REGARDS,
ENGR.AKPAN MBABA

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