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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:

• 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.
  • +2348051124524 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA" <centralbkng@mail.md>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:52:52 +0000
Subject: FROM: JULIUS COKER (C.B.N.) Urgent

Dear VICTIMNAME VICTIMNAME,

My brother,it pleases me to receive your mail in respect of my last mail to you, i know your father very well as God fearing person like wise your self.
Before i decided to write you my brother i have thought over it and you have to know that i am not a MADMAN, i discovered this money in my department and after my thoughts and every other thing i decided to contact you so that you can be able to help me to secure this money into any account, you can open a new account for it.

After the bank might have transferred the money we have to share it 50%50, i will send you an account where you can send my own. You should not fear or worry because i am the foreign operations manager in the bank and i have secured the money into a coded account where no body can dictate it, and you should keep this confidencial because no body knows about this only me and you, so because of my position in the bank try and keep it within your self.

My father and your Father were very friendly before the sudden death of your father, so relax and call me with this number +234-8051124524.
I also need to have your private telephone number so that we can have easy communication regards to this deal.

After receiving your mail in reply this mail i will give all the necessary information regards to the money and then we can talk on where to transfer the money to and how i can be able to have my own share immedaitly, i contacted you just because of trust as i would not like some body who will betrayed me at the end of the transfer of the money.

I hope you will understand my point and i once more thank you for your understanding.

May Almighty God bless you.

Yours,
Julius Coker
Foreign Operations Department
C.B.N



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