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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:
  • "diplomatic courier" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "affidavit " (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "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 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.
  • +23418037127318 (Nigeria, landline)
• 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.
  • mathewbello@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "mathew bello" <mathewbello@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 05:28:32 -0500
Subject: NOTIFICATION OF PAYMENT

OFFICE OF THE ACCOUNTANT GENERAL OF FEDERATION
PROBE VERIFICATION PANEL ON FOREIGN CONTRACT PAYMENT
FEDERAL COMPLEX TINUBU SQUARE,
Lagos- Nigeria.
Tel/Fax: 234-1803-7127318
Email;mathewbello@hotmail.com
Our Ref: ACG/FGN/543WS/005
Attn:

I am Dr.Mathew Bello, Director, Central Computer
Auditing/Monitoring Unit office of the Accountant General
of Federation. Your payment file was referred to my desk
for approvals before the cash-processing unit was
authorized to make cash payment to you. Ever since, I have
been following up your case,but when it was obvious that
your fund was about to be revoked, I took immediate action
to safeguard the funds from not being confiscated. Because
l was deeply touched that until now you have not received
your contract payment

The difficulties we are encountering in your contract file
is highly complicated, as a letter of affidavit was sent to
this office requesting for a change of your account details
to a bank in Stuttgart Germany by your attorney and
Partners.

The payment investigation /advisory board found out that
there are irregularities in the signatures and according to
information gathered from the bank computer networks, you
have been waiting for a long time to receive your money
without success. And you have almost met all the statutory
requirements of the CBN in respect to your contract
payment; your problem is that of interest group. A lot of
people are interested in your payment and those people are
merely doing paper works with you and that explains why you
receive fax and phone messages from different people in
Nigeria everyday.

Following the prevailing dishonoring of our remittance
instructions and treatment of our credit advice with gross
indifference by most recipients to overseas banks in
addition to some fraudulent activities going on in the
Central Bank, which we have already sent out publications
on that effect.

If you had not authorized the change of your bank account
in respect of your outstanding Contract Payment, the change
of your bank account notification/ declaration was
supported with a sworn affidavit from Lagos high court ref:
Ilk /jj/20522/k2004,dated 15th September 2004 and signed by
one Manfred Alex Klingler who claim and stated in the sworn
declaration that you authorized him to claim the contract
fund on your behalf.

The new account is in BANK OF VALLETTA PLC, MALTA, a/c
no.40012849840, we have already advised our corresponding
bank overseas to release your approved outstanding
contract payment in your favor before the affidavit to
change your bank account number was submitted to this
office. You are therefore advised in your own interest to
confirm to this office, notifying us if you are aware of
this new development as our office will not be liable for
miss-crediting of client's account. You have to reconfirm
your full contract / banking co-ordinates information
including your telephone, fax and your postal address also
your contract numbers.

Please acknowledge the receipt of this message, as this
will guide us on what step to take because I have decided
to help you by using diplomatic courier means to deliver
your contract sum to you through our affiliate office.
In that case, you have to compensate me with anything you
deem neccessary, after you must have received your contract
payment.

Please, maintain topmost secrecy as it may cause a lot of
problem, if it is found out that we are using this way to
help you, do not ever tell anybody about this until you
have secured your money.
As you can see that this is the only way to help you
receive your fund.Therefore, if you accept this method call
me on the above phone number.

Yours Faithfully,
Dr. Mathew Bello.
DIRECTOR, CENTRAL COMPUTER AUDITING/MONITORING UNIT
OFFICE OF THE ACCOUNTANT GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION.

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