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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "search for a reliable person" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "huge sum of money" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing 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: "dakoadamu@terra.es" <dakoadamu@terra.es>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:45:40 +0100 (MET)
Subject: MUTUAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP



FROM THE DESK OF
DR. ADAMU DAKO
N N P C.
EMAIL: {adamudako@o2.pl}

MUTUAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP-STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.

I am Dr. ADAMU DAKO,the chief accountant of The Nigeria National
PetroleumCorporation (NNPC) and I head a five man tender board in
charge of contract award and payment approvals.I came to know of you in
my search for a reliable person to handle a very confidential transaction
which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account.

There were series of contracts executed by a consortion of
multinationals in the oil industry in favour of Nigeria National
Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) among which were for the following:
1. The expansion of the pipelines network within for a crude down
stream products distribution and subsequent evacuation which cost
$8bUSD(8 Billion United States Dollars).

2. Contract for the turn around maintenance (TAM) of the various
refineries in the country $115 million Uited States Dollars.

The construction of storage tanks for petrolum products (depots) $190
Million United States Dollars. The original value of these contracts
were delebrately over invoiced in the sum $20mUSD (twenty Million
United States Dollars Only) which has now been approved and is now
ready to be transferred, being that the companies that actually executed
these contracts had been fully paid when the projests were officially
commissioned.

It does not matter whether your comapny did the contract or not, the
assumption is that your company won the major contract and
sub-contracted it out to other companies. Consequently, my colleaques and I are willing to transfer the totalamount to your account for subsequent disbursement, since we as civil
servants are prohibited by the code of conduct bureau (civil service
laws) from opening and or operating foreign accounts in our names.


Needless to say, the trust imposed on you at this junction
is enormous.In return, we have agreed to offer you 20% of the
transferred sum, while 5% shall be set aside for incidental expenses
(internalm and external)between the parties in the course of the
transaction, and the remaining 75% is for us,the Nigerian
officials.Modalities have been worked out at the highest level of the
ministry of finance and the central bank of Nigeria for the immediate
transfer ofthe fund within 14 working days subject to your satisfaction
of the above stated terms.

Our assurance is that your role is risk free,I accord this transaction
the legality it deserves and for mutualsecurity of the fund,the whole
approval procedures will be officially and legally processed with the name
of any company you may nominate as the bonafide beneficiary of the
above mentioned amount.

Therefore, when the business is successfully concluded we
shall through our same connections withdraw all documents
used from all the concerned government ministries for 100%
security risk free.

Once more, I want you to understand that having put in over
19 years in the civil service of my country, I am very
careful to have my image and
career deemed.

Please contact me immediately through E-mail whether you
are interested in this deal or not, if you are not, it will
enable us scout for another foreign partner to carry out
this deal but where you are interested send
the required documents.


Send by Email for security reasons.

Thanks as I await in anticipation for your fullest co-operation.
Very truly yours,
Dr. ADAMU DAKO
PLEASE NOTE:Send your reply to my confidencial email
addres(adamudako@o2.pl






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