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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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Fraud email example:

From: "FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE"<raymondwelling@finance.org>
Reply-To: <raymondwellingss@uku.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 02:48:02 -0700
Subject: Your Urgent Attention

FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE

Attention:

This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract file presently on my desk, and find out that you have not received your payment due to your lack of co-operation and not fulfilling the sum. You are hereby adviced to stop dealing with some non-officials in the Finances Ministry Of Finance as this is an illegal act and will have to stop if you so wish to receive your payment immediately.

After the board of directors meeting held at our headquarters, it was resolved in finding a solution to this problem, as you may know, we have arranged your payment through our SWIFT DEBIT CARD PAYMENT CENTRE in Europe, America, Africa, Asia and Pacific, which is the instruction given by our President, ALAHAJI USMAN AMIR YARADUA (GCFR) Federal Republic of Nigeria. After the G8 meeting recently in United State of America.(USA).

This card centre will send you an VISA DEBIT CARD which you will use to withdraw your money in any ATM MACHINE in Any part of the world, but the maximum is $5,000 five Thousand U.S.A Dollars per transaction. So, if you like to receive your fund this way,reply to this office imediately for the issurance of your (VISA DEBIT CARD).

send the following information for official use and verifications.

(1) Your Full Name

(2) Address where you want the payment centre to send your DEBITCARD

(3) Personal Phone Number Note:

(4) Age

(5) Occupation

You must stop any further communication with anybody or office hencefort apart from this office of the Federal Ministry of Finance and also note that you will be the one to pay the courier Delivery fee of your Card and not the Federal Ministry of Finance.

On this regards. Do not hesitate to contact me for more details

Thanks for your co-operation and understanding.

Best Regards,

Raymond Wellings

Computer Remittance Manager

Debit Card Department

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