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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:
  • "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)
  • "hundred thousand 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)
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • ",500,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
  • "my direct telephone number" (a "direct line" in a scam usually means an untraceable mobile phone number used by a scammer in an internet cafe, a redirection service number that forwards to a mobile or a free voicemailbox in a different country.)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: Kunle Lawal <kunlelawal@live.com>
Reply-To: <drkunlelawal@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:45:09 +0000
Subject: KIND APPROACH



DR. KUNLE LAWALALHAJI SHEHU SHAGARI WAY ZONE 11 GARKI G.R.AABUJAP.M.B 1204 Dear Sir, We are making this contact with you based on the reliable information available to us concerning your reputation and well-organized company (at our chamber of commerce and industry). The information is so positive as to convince us that you would be capable to provide us with a solution to a money transfer of twenty million, five hundred thousand United States Dollars (US$20,500,000.00).We are members of a special committee set up for the review and award of contracts by the department of Petroleum and Mineral Resources.Our status ranks from ministerial post down to Directors-General. This Committee is principally mandated by the new Civilian Government to review the bogus and the over-inflated contracts awarded since June,1998, under the regimes of the former heads of state of Nigeria - General Abdulsalam Abubakar who relinquished power in May, 1999 and his successor former President Olusegun Obasanjo. In the course of our duty, we have so far been able to recover about US$135,000,000.00 (One Hundred and Thirty-five Million United States Dollars) out of which we have used our good offices to set aside the sum of US$20,500,000.00 for our utilization. However as civil servants, our code of conduct strictly prohibits us from operating or running a foreign account, hence we decided to contact you and ask For your assistance. Together with some of the top officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation (NNPC), and the Federal Ministry of finance, we plan to transfer this amount of money into an oversea account by awarding a non existent contract from our parastatal (NNPC) to you, to perfect the transfer.What we need from you, is to provide a very vital account into which the funds will be transferred. The trust reposed on you at this juncture is enormous. In return, we have agreed to offer you 25% of the transferred sum, while 5% shall be set aside for incidental expenses.You must however note that this transaction is subject to the following terms and conditions: Our conviction of your honesty and diligence That you would treat this transaction with utmost secrecy and confidentiality That the funds would be transferred to an interest bearing account where the incidence of taxation would not exert a heavy toll. I would like to assure you that I have carefully and painstakingly made all arrangement to ensure actualization of this transaction which will be concluded within a few working days of the necessary information and details. The nature of our communication is of utmost importance hence you may reach me via my Electronic mail address or call my direct telephone number +234-1-212-2462 Yours faithfully, DR. Kunle LawalHon.Chairman .
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