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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:
  • "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "www.cenbank.org" (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.
  • +23418517129 (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.
  • tunde_lemo@easymail.hu (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • tunde2007_lemo@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Mr Tunde Lemo <tunde_lemo@easymail.hu>
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:50:24 +0200
Subject: URGENT REPLY


                                   THE PRESIDENCY
                            FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
 
                    Office of The Deputy Governor, Financial Sector Surveillance
                       
           Central Bank of Nigeria.
 
     Mr. Tunde Lemo (Board Member)
    Deputy Governor, Financial Sector Surveillance
      Central Bank of Nigeria
OFFICE Email:
 tunde_lemo@easymail.hu
http://www.cenbank.org/AboutCBN/Thelist.asp
 
Sir,
 
I am Mr. Tunde Lemo, Board Member and Deputy Governor, Financial
Sector Surveillance, Central Bank of Nigeria. We have currently been
Investigating you under the auspices of the Joint Regulatory
Commission of the Presidency and NDIC. Incidentally, we have
discovered during the course of the investigation that the agencies
that were responsible for your claim settlement have lost credibility. This is because the credit
facility extended to them for the said payment has since expired, and
as a result, they are unable to offset your fund. They have resorted to
charging you all forms of fees and advance payments to no avail.
 
NDIC, being the agency responsible for underwriting the guarantee for
your
 claim has therefore, called for the retransmitted of your funds
from offshore credit. Under the Joint Regulatory Commission, we have
adopted a new payment scheme for immediate remittance of the approved
sum of US$8, 300.000.00 of your
 funds through an automated payment
system using an ATM CARD.
 
By this arrangement, you are not required to travel to anywhere
outside your country before your funds reach your account. Your funds
originated from a legitimate claim here. It is not possible for you
to be paid from anywhere else outside here or through direct wire
transfer because Nigeria as a nation stopped Direct Wire Transfer of
funds to foreign accounts since the September 9/11 due to high level
of corruption in Nigerian Banks, Ministries, Governmental Agencies,
etc. You must therefore, stop all contact with those people claiming
to have access to your funds with immediate effect.
 
We are
 working under the auspices of the Joint Regulatory Commission,
and we intend to clear all foreign outstanding payment with this new
payment scheme before the end of this month.
 
In other to expedite the release of your payment, reconfirm to me the
Following:
 
1. Present Contact Address
2. Direct Telephone/Fax Numbers
3. Current Occupation
4. Current Age and Marital Status
5. Full Name:
 
Upon receipt of the above-mentioned information’s, your payment will
be process and all relevant approvals will be granted and your
payment will be released to you through our affiliate bank  through
the ATM CARD payment system which will enable you withdraw money from
any ATM MACHINE anywhere in the world.
 
If you want to receive your payment in this form, Email me back as
soon as you receive this
 important message with tie
Email: tunde2007_lemo@yahoo.fr
Direct Tel: 234-1-8517-129.
 
MR. TUNDE LEMO
Deputy Governor, Financial Sector Surveillance
Central
 Bank of Nigeria.
 
 

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