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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:

• 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.
  • +2348035601811 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: Mrs ngozi Okonjo-Iw <ngo_ok20@yahoo.it>
Reply-To: ngo_ok201@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:07:38 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: From Mrs Ngozi Okonjo Iweala


From Mrs Ngozi Okonjo Iweala

www.fmf.gov.ng

DIRECT LINE: 234-8035601811 FAX-234-1-7595466

Ministry of Finance




ATTN: HONOURABLE CONTRACTOR.



I am Mrs Ngozi Okonjo Iweala the Hon Minister of Finance

and I want to find out before the end of this month,why

your contract/ claim of your part payment of $15.5 Million

fund have not been credited to your account.


However there are two gentlemen who came from your country

to claim this fund on your behalf and the reason giving to us

is that you are the one who send them that you are terminal sick and

they provide account of union Bank of Swizterland for the payment to be

made. Kindly reconfirmyour banking particulars to us and to know if

you are the one that send them, your telephone and fax numbers and your

full name for us to check with the one in our file.



Your faithfully.

Mrs Ngozi Okonjo Iweala

www.fmf.gov.ng

DIRECT LINE: 234-8035601811 FAX-234-1-7595466

Ministry of Finance





- Mrs ngozi Okonjo-Iw

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