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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)
  • "my direct telephone number" (i.e. "call me on my cellphone at the Internet cafe where we scammers hang out")
  • "charles soludo" (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.
  • +2348033190830 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "charles soludo" <charles_soludocbn01@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: drcharles_soludo_advicer@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:03:13 +0100
Subject: IMMEDIATE ATTENTION NEEDED PLS.

                                                        

             

                                                      

                   (OFFICE OF THE FIRST LADY OF NIGERIA)

From the Desk of Dr. Charles Soludo.

Advicer to the finace to the Late first lady of Nigeria.

Goodday,

As you can decern, i am Dr.Charles soludo, the Advicer to the finace to the Late first lady of Nigeria Chief Mrs. Stella Obasanjo, who died last week Saturday the 22nd of Oct 2005 in a Spanish Hospital after surgical operation.

I write to propose a business which will unmittigatedly benefit you, and i

Meanwhile, there is a fund being kept in my care about $ 8.000000 USD, for the project of the Charity Organisation in Ondo state of Nigeria,which i need to transfer out of the country a soon as possible.

Now am in need of a trustworthy person who i can transfer the money to his or her foreign account, and 20% of the fund goes to whoever that get this fund out of my country.

I will be greatful if you are down for the transaction, please if interested quickly contact me on my direct Telephone number +234-803-3190830, so that we can orally discuss the modalities of making the move.

My picture,and the official papers are to authenticate and assure you of the genuiness of this transaction without prattling.

I am unreservedly assuring you that there is no vestige of risk involved in this deal only try to maintain secrecy.

Regards,

DR. CHARLES SOLUD.

(ADVICER TO THE FINANCE FLN)

 

 

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