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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
• 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.
  • +2348023122834 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • cbnprofcharlescsoludo@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Charles Soludo" <info@cbnofficecontact.org>
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 03:18:52 +0000
Subject: IMMEDIATE CONTRACT PAYMENT .





FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA,
CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA,
WUSE 2, GARKI ABUJA.

DIRECT LINE:(+234-8023122834)
>From the Desk Of:
Prof Charles Soludo
Executive Governor

07th, September 2005.





IMMEDIATE CONTRACT PAYMENT CONTRACT NO: MAV/NNPC/FGN/MIN/009.



We Apologize, for the delay of your payment and all the Inconveniences that
will might have indulge you through. However, we were having some minor
problems with our payment system, which is Inexplicable, and have held us
stranded and Indolent, not having the Aspiration to devote our 100%
Assiduity in accrediting foreign contract payments. We Apologize
once again.

>From the Records of outstanding contractors due for payment with the federal
government of Nigeria, your name and company was discovered as next on the
list of the outstanding contractors who have not yet received
their payments.

I wish to inform you now that the square peg is now in square whole and can
be voguish for that your payment is being processed and will be released to
you as soon as you respond to this letter. Also note that from my record in
my file your outstanding contract payment is US$15,700,000.00 (Fifteen
million seven hundred thousand United States dollars).

Re-confirm to me if this is Online with what you have in your record and
also



Kindly re-confirm to me the followings:



(1) Your full name.
(2) Phone, fax and mobile #.
(3) company's name,position and address.
(4)profession, age and marital status.
(5) Copy of int'l passport or any scanned identity to prove yourself.



As soon as this information is received, your payment will be made to you in
a certified bank draft or wired to your nominated bank account directly from
central bank of Nigeria.

However when you receive this letter you should contact me on my personal
e-mail address;cbnprofcharlescsoludo@yahoo.com.






YOURS SINCERELY,




PROFESSOR CHARLES. C. SOLUDO,
GOVERNOR, CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN).

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