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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  
• 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.
  • +447024061482 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +23417593657 (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.
  • hbos_financial@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • chucksdanielmbeki@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: hbos financial <hbos_financial@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 11:12:09 +0100 (BST)
Subject: ATTN: Amarjit Singh.


BANK OF SCOTLAND & SECURITIES.
London - England
TEL: 44-702-406-1482
FAX: 44- 870-120-8565.
E-mail: hbos_financial@yahoo.co.uk
Website: www.bankofscotland.co.uk


Our Ref: HBOS/ENG/01/05 Date: 1st-07-2006

From the Desk of the Telex/Wire Director Bank of Scotland & Securities.
London-England

ATTN: Amarjit Singh.

FUND TRANSER CONFIRMATION O.K FURTHER CREDIT ACCEPTED.

We have received your contract payment approval from our ordering Customer Service in the Central Bank of Nigeria for the further credit to your bank account. With all due respect, our bank has obliged to credit your account with instruction. Quoting reference to HBOS transfer regulation and in line with British Financial and Allied Conduct, your account will be effected as soon as you reconcile our 1% Cost of Transfer or you may advise us to deduct the total value and transfer the balance to your account.

Should you be willing to accept deduction, our bank is therefore urging you to contact the authorized Central Bank of Nigeria, there director of International Remittance Department; Rev. Dr. Chucksdaniel Mbeki. On Tel: 234-1-7593657 Email: chucksdanielmbeki@yahoo.com Please ask him to issue you the Original Authority to Deduct Bill of Exchange Form to enable us deduct the 1% cost of transfer.

Be advised also that we only acknowledge the receipt of the ORIGINAL HARD COPY OF THE BILL OF EXCHANGE FORM, which must be duly filed and signed by the beneficiary before we can effect deduction.

Please be warned, as our bank does not trust any Nigerian Official except the CBN Director of International Department, Rev. Dr. Chucksdaniel Mbeki; whom we can give attention to in any of this instruction.

Prior to our banking regulation, final credit shall be made to your account upon your instruction.

Congratulations!!

Yours faithfully,

Mr. Edward Collins.
Director,
International Financial Affairs
BANK OF SCOTLAND,
LONDON-ENGLAND.
Website: www.bankofscotland.co.uk


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