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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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 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.
  • +2348038371540 (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.
  • gforem_cbn_1234@yahoo.com.hk
  • forem777cbn@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?big5?q?Rasheed=20mahey?= <forem_cbn_1234@yahoo.com.hk>
Reply-To: forem777cbn@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 18:49:34 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: very urgent responce


§Ú¦³·sªº¹q¶l¦a§}¡I§A²{¥i¹q¶lµ¹§Ú¡Gforem_cbn_1234@yahoo.com.hk

CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA

FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT

TINUBU SQUARE, LAGOS.

TEL: 234-8038371540, Fax: 234-1-75908975,

Our Ref:. CBN/OGV/FGN/2004


Your Ref:. CONTRACT PAYMENT Date: 27-5-2006

From the Desk of:

ALHAJI RASHEED MAHEY

Director, Foreign Remittance Dept.

OFICAIL ;EMAIL ;forem777cbn@yahoo.com

ATTN:


DEAR SIR,


AFTER A SERIOUS MEETING HELD ON WENSADAY THIS WEEK WITH THE PRESIDENCY AND SNEATE AND THE OFFICAL OF THIS CENTRAL BANK OVER YOUR DELAYING PAYMENT AND I HAVE TO OPEN UP TO THEM, BECUASE I DONT LIKE HOW YOU WAISTING YOUR MONEY IN HANDS OF THOSE BADS ONES WHO CALIM TO BE ONE OF THE OFFICALS AND EXTORT MONEY FROM YOU..


DO YOU KNOW THAT YOUR CONTRACT NUMBER HAVE BEIN CHANGED THAT IS WHY THOSE SACK OFFICAL IS CONTACTING YOU OVER THIS PAYMENT AND SOME CLAIM TO BE EFCC CHARIMAN AND USE THE AVENU AND GET MONEY FROM YOU.


RIGHT NOW AS AM TALLKING TO YOU I HAVE 3 OF YOUR PAYMENT FILE THAT BEAR YOUR NAME

DIFFRENT CONTRACT NUMBERS AND CONTRACT AMOUNT . IF YOU LIKE START PUSHING THIS YOUR CONTRACT PAYMENT FROM NOW TILL END OF THE WORLD YOU CAN NOT GET YOUR FUNDS ONLY SPEND YOUR MONEY FOR NOTING, BECAUSE YOUR CONTRACT NUMBER HAVE BEIN CHANG BY THOSE SACK OFICAILS .


1, YOUR NAME CONTRACT AMOUNT $30M CONTRACT NUMBER ; contract # nnpc/ped/7666/02;


2, , YOUR NAME CONTRACT AMOUNT $25M CONTRACT NUMBER ; contract # nnpc/ped/4222/95;


3, , YOUR NAME CONTRACT AMOUNT $35M CONTRACT NUMBER ; contract # nnpc/ped/7656/91;



YOU ARE ADVICE TO STOP EVERY DEALING AND COMMUNICATION WITH THOSE CRIMINALS TO ENABLE THIS CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA TRANSFER

YOUR FUNDS IN YOUR NOMINETED BANK ACCOUNT.


NOTE; SINCE I HAVE OPEN UP TO THE OFFICAL I WILL HELP YOU TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU RECEIVE YOUR FUND BY ISSUEING YOU ANOTHER NEW CONTRACT NUMBER, I WILL USE MY POSITION AS DIRECTOR FOREIGN REMITTANCE AND GIVE YOU ANOTHER CONTRACT NUMBER

WHAT YOU WILL DO KNOW IS TO SEND TO ME YOUR BANK INFOREMTION WHERE THE FUNDS WILL BE TRANSFER OTHER OF YOUR INFORMETION IS WITH ME.


WAITING FOR YOUR URGENT RESPONCE TODAY AND CALL ME IMMEDAITLY FOR MORE INFORMEYION; 234-8038371450



THANKS



ALHAJI RASHEED MAHEY

DIRECTOR, FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.

- Rasheed mahey

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