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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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:
Fraud email example:
From: nuhu ribadu <bereauofinvestigationefcc@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 04:24:31 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: urgent and confidential
From: Alhaji Nuhu Ribadu. [mailto:bereauofinvestigationefcc@yahoo.com
Subject: HELP US TO STOP CRIME/FRAUD.
Amarjit Singh
Presently we discovered that some certain miscreants pose as Bank/government officials to defraud innocent people off their hard earn money and in attempt to track their activity a monitoring committee was set up in Nigeria,London,United State of America and Holland to monitor the activities of this fraudstars. Presently we have been able to arrest more than fifty five culprits through the assistance and cooperation of their victims among which thirty is presently under going trial while a total of twenty seven is in jail. A total of USD40M have been recovered and handed back to the respective owners and personal properties of these fraudstars impounded.
Your email address was extracted from our monitoring device while searching for the names and address of these fraudstars, meaning that you are in contact with one or more of these miscreants who in most cases are Africans and as such we request that you contact us immediately in order for us to get more details that will enable us track and monitor the activities of these fraudstars. For your information, you are not to disclose this information to anybody else they will abandone your proposed transaction and dissappear into tin-air thereby making it difficult for us to get to them.
As soon as we receive your response we will assign a lawyer to you who will in turn update you and ensure that the funds you've already paid out is recovered and handed back to you and the fraudstar persecuted accordingnly. Below are informations needed from you to assist us in our quest.
1) Your Name, Address, email and telephone number
2) The name of the person you are in contact with
3) His/Her email address which is very important because we can monitor where he/she is sending our the mails from (The server)
4) His/her telephone and fax number
5) His/her address if any and the Bank/institution being impersonated
We are aware that most of them use fake identity and in most cases uses cell phone as their contact number but with their email address and cooperation from you, we assure you that within a short period of time they will be monitored and arrested using our email tracking device.
Help fight crime to make this earth a better place to live in.
For further information contact:
Alhaji Nuhu Ribadu, Chairman,
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),
15 Awins Road, Ikoyi, Lagos,
Email:bereauofinvestigationefcc@yahoo.com
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