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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:
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "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.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.

Fraud email example:

From: "Stephen More" <stephenmore_3@msn.com>
Reply-To: pastormoore2005@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:29:29 +0000
Subject: PAYMENT RECONCILIATION

Pastor Stephen Moore.
Special Monitoring Envoy From The United Nation Organization(UNO).
(Mission on debt recovery and payment)


Attention beneficiary.

BEWARE OF IMPOSTORS IN TRING TO GET YOUR MONEY WITH
THE CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA(CBN).

Following the recent broadcast of the president and
the commander in chief of armed forces of the federal
republic of Nigeria during the visit to the America
President Mr. George W. Bush, his speech to the united
nation, couple with recommendation and resolution of
his last visit to South Africa, British, France and
the UNGA United Nations General Assembly in New York),
a total sum of $15.5 MILLION has been mapped out by the
SENATE to settle all your outstanding debts owned
to you this year. It has therefore become
imperative for us to explore our options for reducing
our debt servicing policy to affordable and
sustainable levels. On the order of the president as a
mark of his reconciliation and image laundering
exercise toward sanitizing the battered image of the
federal republic of Nigeria abroad.

In any case, we hope that you will not turn down this
offer or ignore this opportunity to receiving your
long overdue payment. Well, I know it may be hard to
believe at this stage, considering your sad
experiences in the past, which the concerned
authorities responsible for the release of your fund
misleaded you and also mishandled your files thereby
letting out some useful informations to the public.
This explains why you receive emails, faxes and calls
from different people across the globe promising to
assist you. Even the people that you are dealing with
now, are misleading you under the pretence of
rendering all needed assistance aimed at releasing
your request for the claims of your fund . From all
observations, I believe that you must have lost trust
on whom to believe that is genuine regarding the faxes
and calls you have been receiving.

Anyway, we do not leave in the past but rather learn a
lesson from the events that happened in the past.
I have been monitoring the stress which both foreign
&local beneficiaries/contractors underwent and want
you to believe in my revelation which can only come to
pass if you can be wise enough to know that you were
taken for a very long ride by those fake crooks that
personate themselves as Governor of Central Bank of
Nigeria(CBN) Dr. Joseph Sanusi,professor Charles
Soludo several Accountant General ofthe Federation,
Attorneys / Barristers,Offshore Officials from across
the globe etc, which we have forward the list of names
sent by foreign clients(like you) to us to the
Presidential Task Force on Fraud Malpractice for
appropriate action to be taking on them. Well,with my
position presently I will by-pass certain official
bureaucracy to make sure that your fund are signed out
for payment from the various Ministries without
further delays.

Finally, Be informed that this officials will go to
any lenght to see that they convince you not to
communicate with us,however i will advice that for
your own intrest avoid them to avoid further damage to
your humbleself.

Also do reconfirm your transaction details, direct
telephone and fax number where you can be reached
easily.

I believe that your nightmares will be over if you are
ready to adhere to my advice on the way forward in
retrieving this payment.

Yours faithfully
Pastor Stephen Moore,
United Nation Delegate To Nigeria.

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