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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.
  • alhajiatikuabubakar@maktoob.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • alhajiatikuabubakarvp2@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: atikuabubakarvp23@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:04:44 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Alhaji=20Atiku=20Abubakar=2C?=

My Pleasure writing to you.

My name is Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Vice-President, Federal Republic of Nigeria
and

number two citizen of Nigeria. I need a very CREDIBLE, GENUINE AND SINCERE
PERSON

that I can
trust who will represent me overseas as my Sponsor and Agent.Nigeria is
the largest

Country in Africa and the richest, both in Human and material resources.
Nigeria is

the 6th largest producers of crude oil in the world.

Because of the invasion of IRAQ by American and British Military
forces, the price of Petroleum prices skyrocked and Nigeria made alot
of money from excess crude oil. As the Vice-President of Nigeria and
number two citizen, I am directly in charge of the excess crude oil
account which presently has over USD5Billion.Right now, I am prepared to
divert

USD80Million[Eighty Million U.S.Dollars] into your Bank for my political
campaign

next year.

I will divert the USD80Million into your bank account anywhere you provide

bank account from the excess crude oil account. You will ACT as my
Foreign Sponsor paying the bills for me and NOBODY in Nigeria will
ever know that I diverted the money into your personal bank account.

SEND ALL YOUR RESPONSES TO MY CONFIDENTIAL EMAIL ADDRESS:

alhajiatikuabubakar@maktoob.com or alhajiatikuabubakarvp2@yahoo.com

I await favourable response from you.
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar,
Vice-President,
Federal Republic of Nigeria.

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