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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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Fraud email example:

From: bentom11@handbag.com
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 13:26:47 +0100
Subject: RE: LETTER OF ENQUIRY ON CONTRACT PAYMENT.

FROM: CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN)
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN
OPERATION/ TELEX DEPARTMENT
TEL: 234-803-4263767
SIR,
RE: LETTER OF ENQUIRY ON CONTRACT PAYMENT.
WE WRITE TO ENQUIRE FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE SENT SOMEBODY FROM LEBANON MR AUDU
MOHAMMED AND SOME NIGERIA REPRESENTATIVE TO THE CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN)
TO MAKE CLAIM OF YOUR FUNDS ON YOUR BEHALF.
LAST FRIDAY AT ABOUT 10.00 AM NIGERIA TIME, MR AUDU MOHAMMED AND YOUR NIGERIAN
REPRESENTATIVE WALK IN TO THE BANK SAYING THAT YOU HAVE SENT THEM TO CHANGE
YOUR BANK ACCOUNT AND PUT CLAIM ON YOUR BEHALF FOR YOUR CONTRACT SUM. I INITIALLY
INSTRUCTED FOR THE RELEASE OF THE FUND TO THEM AS A MATTER OF FACT WHEN THEIR
FILE WAS CHECK ALL THE OBLIGATORY DOCUMENTS WAS INTACT, BUT ON CROSS CHECKING
OF YOUR OWN FILE WITH US WE FOUND SOME MANIPULATION IN THEIR FILE IT WAS
THEN DISCOVERED THAT THE BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER PRESENTED WAS DIFFERENT FROM
YOURS AND THE BENEFICARY OF THE ACCOUNT BROUGHT WAS CHANGORI AND CHANGORI
WHICH MADE US TO SUSPECT THEM.
INVIEW OF THIS, YOU NEED TO RECONFIRM INFORMATION BELOW TO ASCERTAIN IF THE
CONTRACT INFORMATIONS ARE CORRECT OR NOT,ALSO RECONFIRM YOUR BANKING INFORMATION
TO US TO AVOID MISTAKE IN TRANSFER.
1) CONTRACT NUMBER: NNPC/KADREF/00453/PED-1998
2) CONTRACT AMOUNT: $28.4M

AS SOON AS YOU RECONFIRM ABOVE INFORMATION TO US,WE WILL NOT HESITATE TO
TRANSFER YOUR CONTRACT SUM INTO YOUR NOMINATED BANK ACCOUNT AS WE HAVE BEEN
GIVEN A MANDATE BY THE PRESIDENCY TO RELEASE ALL CONTRACTORS FUND UNDER 72HOURS
PENDING THE TIME HE/SHE COMPLIES TO THIS NOTICE.
YOUR REPRESENTATIVES ARE REQUESTED TO FORWARD A POWER OF ATTORNEY FROM YOU,
INFORMING THE CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN) OF THE CHANGE IN ACCOUNT NUMBER
UNTIL THIS MOMENT,THEY ARE NOWHERE TO BE FOUND, COULD YOU PLEASE TELL THIS
BANK IF YOU WERE THE PERSON SENT THIS TWO GENTLE MAN FOR THIS MISSION AND
COULD YOU PLEASE CONTACT THE UNDERSIGNED THROUGH THE EMAIL,, TO CONFIRM THIS
MATTERS BEFORE WE START TAKING LEGAL ACTION, BUT IF THEY ARE FROM YOU, KINDLY
GIVE THEM THE POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE CONTRACT FUNDS INTO
THE BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA (BBV) URB. JARDINES DEL PUERTO-LOCAL 8,E-29600 PUERTO
JOSE BANUS, MARBELLA - SPAIN
PLEASE NOTE,BY THE AUTHORITIES OF THE PRESIDENCY IN LINE WITH THE ENABLING
DECREE OF 512? A, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE RELEVANT BODIES; THE CENTRAL BANK
OF NIGERIA (CBN), THE NATIONAL ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE (NEIC) AND
THE FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE (FMF), WE HAVE RESOLVED THAT ALL OVERDUE
CONTRACT PAYMENTS BE RELEASED THIS QUARTER IN ABSOLUTE COMPLIANCE TO THE
I.M.F AND WORLD BANK MANDATORY CONDITIONS OF SERVICE TO OUR FOREIGN CAPITAL
DEBTS.
BASED ON THIS, THIS OFFICE HAS BEEN MANDATED BY THE PRESIDENCY TO HANDLE
ALL PAYMENTS DUE TO FOREIGN CONTRACTORS. YOU SHOULD THEREFORE DISREGARD ANY
CORRESPONDENCE THAT YOU MAY HAVE OR MAY COME TO YOU FROM ANY OTHER DEPARTMENT
IN THE PAST.
PLEASE ASSIST US TO EXPEDITE ACTION AND CALL ME IMMEDIATELY AS YOU RECEIVE
THIS FAX NOW. I AM IN THE OFFICE WAITING FOR YOUR CALL ON PHONE: 234-803-4263767

ANTICIPATING YOUR PROMPT RESPONSE AND CO-OPERATION.
YOURS FAITHFULLY,
FOR: CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN).
BEN TOM.
DIRECTOR FOR TELEX DEPT


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