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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 us 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)
  • "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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "lagos" (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.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +23414448187 (Nigeria, landline)
• 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.
  • hassanpcp1@web2mail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Omar Hassan" <alhassanpcp@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 13:08:37 +0100
Subject: VERY URGENT AND HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL


...IMMEDIATE CONTRACT PAYMENT CONTRACT....
* [image: King of Cyber Nigeria !, Everything about Nigeria,
...News, ...Jobs ...Etc.] **
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** *
*NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION.*
*FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA*
**
* Mr.Omar Hassan.
The New Central Mosque,
10/15 Mosque Avenue, Ikoyi,
Lagos - Nigeria.
Fax: 234-1-4448187.
Mobile: 234-7033404494
Emails: hassanpcp1@web2mail.com

ASSALAMU'ALAIKUM

PERMISSION TO REMIT US$21 MILLION INTO YOUR COMPANY OR PRIVATE ACCOUNT.
It is my pleasure to write and inform you of a transaction involving the
transfer of US $21,000,000.00 (twenty one million US dollars) only into a
foreign account for safekeeping pending my arrival with my colleagues for
the sharing with you as the account owner into which the money is remitted.
I am an accountant with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC),
Lagos and this money originated from over-invoiced contract executed for the
corporation some years back. And the contract was the installations supply
and erection of petroleum rings and turnaround maintenance of warri
refinery, this contract has long been completed by a foreign firm and the
contractor duly paid.

I now seek if you would permit the surplus to be remitted into your account.
As a matter of fact, we are top government officials and we cannot come out
openly to claim this amount. This is why we are looking for a competent and
honest company or individual abroad whose documents would be tendered by us
here in Nigeria as one of the contractors that executed the project.
However, I would wish to receive your personal assurance that you would not
sit on the money when it goes into your account. More importantly, you keep
confidential this transaction, in order not to tarnish the confidence repose
in the officials involved in this transaction.

To effect this transfer, I therefore request the following: AN ACCOUNT
NUMBER, THE NAME OF THE BANK WHERE THE MONEY WOULD BE TRANSFERRED INTO AND
ALSO YOUR PRIVATE FAX AND TELEPHONE NUMBERS FOR QUICK COMMUNICATION.
Although we have not met or entered into any kind of contract with you
before as to know the extent of your honesty, but based on the
recommendation, I personally want to believe that you are honest enough and
would not sit on the money if finally got into your account. It is on this
note that I consider it proper to write you asking for your permission and
support to transfer this amount into your account. You should not fear any
risk because we have concluded arrangement to safe guard you in the
transaction. This business is 100% risk free. Hence it requires high level
of confidence and secrecy.

Meanwhile this is the breakdown of the sharing modalities: (A). 10% WILL BE
USED TO SETTLE TRANSFER CHARGES AND LEGAL PROTOCOLS. (B). 30% IS FOR USING
YOUR ACCOUNT. (C). 60% OF IT WILL BE FOR US THE ORIGINATORS. Be informed
that on completion of this business I will use part of my money to invest in
your country under your care. Please note that the transfer operation will
take eight to ten working days to be completed. Please contact me by fax
number: 234-1-4448187 phone 234-7033404494.

Thanks
Mr.Omar Hassan.*
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