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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "outstanding contractors" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "your payment is being processed" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
  • "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "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 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.
  • professor_c_s@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Prof charles Soludo" <profsoludo01@msn.com>
Reply-To: charlessoludo@halejob.com
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 08:10:10 +0000
Subject: Honourable Business Partner,I need your personal attention

                                

     CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA

    TINUBU SQUARE,VICTORIA ISLAND,

                 LAGOS-NIGERIA

                       OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
               FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT
                     CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA

OUR REF: CBN/IRD/CBX/021/05

 

 

 

RE: IMMEDIATE PAYMENT OF YOUR CONTRACT INHERITANCE ON CONTRACT #:MAV/NNPC/FGN/MIN/009.

 

 

 

Attention: Honourable Business Partner,

 

If you are capable and matured enough to present yourself and receive this fund on my behalf, please respond immediately.I want to use this opportunity to present you as my business foreign partner.
This is a private contract payment and it is due, you can work it out if you will give me a strong assurance that you will support and present yourself as the next of kin to the sum of $25million USD.

 

From the records of outstanding contractors due for payment with the Government of Nigeria. Your name and company was discovered as next on the list of the outstanding contractors who have not received their payments.

 

I wish to inform you that your payment is being processed and will be released to you as soon as you respond to this letter. Also note that from the record in my file,  outstanding contract payment is $25Million United States Dollars.

Please re-confirm to me the followings:

 

1) Your full name.
2) Phone, Fax and Mobile #.
3) Company name, Position and Address.
4) Profession, age and marital status.
5) A copy of any kind of identification

 

As soon as this information are received, the payment will be made to you in a certified bank draft or wired to your bank account directly.

 

I have decided to reach you this way because the federal govrnment is on inspection on all the banks with special task force  and right now, the  banking law and guideline here in my country stipulates that if any customer account remains unserviceable or dormant, and unclaimed after (10) Ten years, the amount in the account will be transferred into the bank treasury on grounds of Money Laundering ,Drug and Anti -Terrorist activities, and that means that by the end of this january 2006, this $25million will be returned to the bank treasury as unclaimed funds, and that is why i need someone like you to urgently support me and put claim.

 

Please kindly get back to me as soon as possible so i can secure this fund to your account before it too late. Reply me through this email: professor_c_s@hotmail.com

 

Thanks for your cooperation.

 

 

 

   

PROFESSOR CHARLES C. SOLUDO
Tel: 234-1-4723393

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