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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "abuja" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "hosmb" <hosmb@canada.com>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 09:42:13 -0800
Subject: RE:COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON

RE:COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON
Dr Ela Noye
Federal Ministry of Health
Public Hospitals management Board
P.o.Box 35467. Garki, Abuja.

Compliments of the season to you and your entire family. I
know that this e-mail message will come to you as a surprise
because we have never meet before now. However i choose to
reach you via e-mail because it remains the fastest and more
secured
way for communication.

My name is Dr Ela Noye contract coordinator for the building
and maintenance of all Public Hospitals in all the 36 states
of thefederation and the federal capital territory with the
federal ministry of Health and the hospital management
board.

The federal ministry of health and the hospital management
board awarded this contract in the year 2005 for building
and
maintenance of all government public hospitals in the
federation.

This contract have been fully executed and commissioned and
full payments made to the contractors.
We were able to over invoiced the contract sum to the tone
of US$4.5million,this $4.5m is what we want to transfer
abroad
with the co-operation of a reliable and a confident partner.

We the contract committee members have agreed that your
share of the total amount $4.5m ,you will take $.5million as
your share while us$4 million will be shared amoung we the
committee members.

The modalities to transfer the fund $6.5m have been
perfected awaiting any account of your choice.

If you find this proposal interesting, Please do not delay
to reply me as a matter of urgency with your phone
number,personal data and contact address so that i can call
you for a more
detailed discussion with you if you find it interesting and
you wish to co-operate with us.
Yours truly.
Dr Ela Noye






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