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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:
  • "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.
  • +2348053588819 (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.
  • vspillai007@yahoo.com.mx (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • dsnwale@mail.md

Fraud email example:

From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Dr.=20Dickson=20Olawale?=" <vspillai007@yahoo.com.mx>
Reply-To: dsnwale01@yahoo.com.mx
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 03:32:50 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: My best regards


¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!Ahora puedes escribirme a: vspillai007@yahoo.com.mx

Dear Friend,


1.We have US$ 15.5 million [fifteen million five hundred thousand united states dollars] out standing commission to claim as agent fee. This money emanated from crude oil facility supply, installation and construction contracts awarded to some foreign company in the NIGERIAN LIQUIDIFIED NATURAL GAS [NLNG]. The contracts have been completed and commissioned accordingly, the contractor paid off.


2.We are therefore seeking your assistance and co-operation in getting this fund claimed and remitted to your personal or corporate account, you will be legally treated as the bonafide agent due for the payment, and we have agreed to give you 40%commission for providing the receiving bank account and assistance, 5% for eventual expenses while 55% will be for us. However certain statutory and regulatory limitations make it impossible or at best difficult, for us to set up such an offshore banking facility at this time.


3.Please notify me urgently by, if this offer is acceptable to you and your willingness to execute this deal with us, giving full details of your full names, private company name/address, private phone/fax, for the processing of the remittance. On receipt of the above information from you, we will forward it to the Bank of Nigeria the apex regulatory financial institution as the agent, for processing of the payment of USD15.5 million as requested in the attached "payment confirmation letter" from the central bank of Nigeria and we will meet you on arrival of the fund in your account. The men involved are top-ranking government officials planning their retirements, the transaction is well initiated and risk free. It will never damage your image.


4.Kindly do contact me almost immediately, in this respect.


5.For security reasons, please treat as top secret and highly confidential and to avoid bringing in the cash into Nigeria in order not to arouse suspicion we have decided to invest our own share of the fund in your country on your directives.


6. PLEASE SEND YOUR REPLY TO: {dsnwale@mail.md}


We wait your urgent response.


Yours sincerely,


Dr Dickson Olawale.

Audit Director

Tel: +234 805 358 8819



- Dr. Dickson Olawale

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