419 scam: "CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA"<cb1111ncgovernor@live.com> ATTENTIOON:FUND BENEFICIARY

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "inheritance funds" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "you are advice to " (this email uses bad English)
- "lamido aminu sanusi" (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.
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.
- foreignoperationsdeptcenbankng@rediffmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <foreignoperationsdeptcenbankng@rediffmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 21:28:28 +0100
Subject: ATTENTIOON:FUND BENEFICIARY

Central Bank of Nigeria
Tinubu Square, Lagos,
Nigeria.
Email:foreignoperationsdeptcenbankng@rediffmail.com

Attention: Beneficiary,

I am Mr. Sanusi Lamido Aminu Sanusi, The Governor Central bank Of Nigeria, Idecided to contact you based on the information we gathered concerning your contract/inheritance funds, which we are still unable to pay you.

After our year 2008 Audit we discovered through our payment files that your contract/inheritance payment are still unpaid to you and we tried to find out why you have not received your payment up till this moment and we could not find out any good reason why the officials of this bank decided to stop your payment and we also discovered in our files that you have made several payment in order to receive your payment but all to no avail.

We have summoned my predecessor in office, Dr. Charles Soludu and some of our officials like : Mr. Tunde Lemo,
and Mrs. Stella Dike and the rest of the directors to query them why they have not paid you after all the time and money you have spent so far and at the end of our query and investigation we discovered that they want to
frustrate you so that you will abandon your funds for them to divert it into their personal account for there personal use.

In view of the above, we have stopped them from handling any foreign contractors/inheritance payments to avoid them tarnishing the image of our country and the apex bank so if you are in any way communicating or dealing with any
body or person(s) in regards to your payment, you are now advised to stop and any money you send to any of them is at your own risk.

For the fact that your payment has been delayed for so long with us and you have gone many ways to receive the payment by bank to bank transfer all to no avail,equally because of the stop order and demands of several certificates and documentations. We have therefore concluded after our yesterday meeting with the Presidency that all the contractors/inheritance beneficiaries will be receiving their overdue payment via Cash Diplomatic Payment Delivery. Direct to U.S where you will receive your payment.

This is the only way you will receive your payment without stress or more expenses. All the necessary arrangements regarding the delivery of your payment has been put in place only waiting to hear from you as soon as you receive this message today.

As soon as we hear from you we shall disclose to you the amount to be paid to you and how the money is arranged for delivery and the name of the person in charge of delivering the money to you.

After going through this mail, you are required to furnish us with the following information below so to avoid impostors or paying to the wrong person
(s)

1. Your full house address:
2. Your identity such as, international passport or driver's license:
3. Your contact cell phone numbers:
4. Your Full Name:

Note: It was mandated by Federal Government of Nigeria to finalize with your payment as soon as possible so as to update our payment records before the end of this quarter. Therefore, you are advice to respond to this message immediately and call me as you read this mail.

Please reply via: foreignoperationsdeptcenbankng@rediffmail.com

Best Regards,

Governors Office
Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

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