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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)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "charles soludo" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • barristermichaelwade@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Wade Michael" <wademichael.8901@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: barristermichaelwade@myway.com
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:22:20 -0500
Subject: your patment

CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA

LEGAL DEPARTMENT

TINUBU SQUARE, LAGOS - NIGERIA

E-mail: barristermichaelwade@myway.com

DATE: 2 / 3 / 2007

From the Desk of : Barrister Michael Wade

Dear Sir,

RE: IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF YOUR CONTRACT/INHERITANCE SUM DELAYED

 

Following report reaching us from the awarding Ministries regarding your contract /inheriatance claim which has not been settled, prior to this report and consequent with the coming of America President (George Bush) /World Bank/Imf has mandated our President to settle all outstanding contract/Inheritance payment owned to various contractors in a bid to redeem the image of this country. In view to this, the president has called the attention of various ministerial parastatals not to award new contract, until it is assured that all already awarded and executed contract /Inheritance are paid to their respective beneficiaries by this Apex Bank Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN).

 

In any case, we hope that you will not turn down this offer or ignore this opportunity to receiving your long overdue payment. Well, I know it may be hard to believe at this stage, considering your sad experiences in the past, which the concerned authorities responsible for the release of your payment misleaded you and also mishandled your file thereby letting out some useful informations to the public. This explains why you receive faxes and calls from different people across the globe promising to assist you. Even the people that you are dealing with now, are misleading you under the pretense of rendering all needed assistance aimed at releasing your claim. From all observations, I believe that you must have lost trust on whom to believe that is genuine regarding the faxes/E mails and calls you have been receiving. Anyway, we do not leave in the past but rather learn a lesson from the events that happened in the past.

 

I have been monitoring the stress which both foreign & local contractors underwent and want you to believe in my revelation which can only come to pass if you can be wise enough to known that you were taken for a very long ride by those fake crooks that personate themselves as Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Professor Charles Soludo, several Accountant General of the Federation, Attorneys / Barristers, Offshore Officials from across the globe etc, which we have forward the list of names sent by foreign contractor (like you) to us to the Presidential Task Force on Fraud Malpractice for appropriate action to be taking on them. Well, with my position presently I will by-pass certain official bureaucracy to make sure that your fund are signed out for payment from the various awarding Ministries without further delays.

 

Finally, be informed that my negotiable services of 5% will pay to me upon receipt of your fund in any nominated bank account of yours. Please call me if my assistance is needed or send me your letter of interest on my e-mail barristermichaelwade@myway.com . Also do reconfirm your contract /inheritance details, direct telephone and fax number where you can be reached easily.

 

I believe that your nightmare will be over if you are ready to adhere to my advice on the way forward in retrieving this payment.

Yours faithfully.

Barr Michael Wade

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