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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 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.
  • cbn_ktt_remit@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: EFCC CRIMES <efcc_crimes_nigeria00@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 16:27:00 +0100 (BST)
Subject: ATTN:AMARJIT SINGH .............FROM EFCC NIGERIA




ATTN:AMARJIT SINGH



SUBJECT:ORDER FROM ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION (EFCC).






The Economic Financial Crime Commission {EFCC} through our intelligency Monitoring Network have discovered that some group of unscrupulous elements have fraudlently using the Federal Government of Nigeria letter headed paper to mis-inform creditors like you causing a lot of problems and irregularities towards the release of your long overdue payment because of all this fraudlent act this office has been dully intervened on the release of your fund. We have been mapped out to verified and investigate properly on your fund by the president federal republic of Nigeria chief olusegun obasanjo,hence the notice of the following reports.

{1} According to the strenght of this report, you should stop forthwith your dealings with all this fraudsters who claimed to be a Government officials, like: Union Bank, Zenit Bank intercontinental Bank, First Bank, Fidelity Bank, standard Trust Bank, payment clearing house, the presidency, the Senate House, etc, except any fax or call from KEY TESTED TELEX WIRE TRANSFER DEPARTMENT OF CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA which is the only mandated and Authorized Bank and Department to transfer foreign payment of our genuie foreign creditor like you. According to the strenght of this report and in reference to instruction from the executive office of the president, you are warned to desist from further contacts and dealings with any person or office here in Nigeria or oversea. On no account should you be found dealing or communicating with any person or office otherwise, you have yourself to blame.

Finally, you advice to work with DR KELLY BROWN DIRECTOR KEY TESTED TELEX DEPARTMENT OF CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA and obay their rules and regulation, through their confidencial email address cbn_ktt_remit@myway.com while you keep us posted with every conversation with them .

Thanks


YOUR FAITHFULLY.

ALHAJI RIBADU NURU


CHRIAMAN, ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION (EFCC), FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.













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