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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "diplomatic courier" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "affidavit " (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "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.
  • +2348057239431 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "dubadia" <dubadia@terra.com.mx>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 06:36:02 -0600
Subject: NOTIFICATION OF PAYMENT


OFFICE OF THE ACCOUNTANT GENERAL OF FEDERATION PROBE
VERIFICATION PANEL ON FOREIGN CONTRACT PAYMENT FEDERAL
COMPLEX TINUBU SQUARE, Lagos- Nigeria.
Our Ref: ACG/FGN/543WS/005
Phone: 234-80-57-23-94-31

Attn:
I am Dr.Dan.W.Ubadia, Director, Central Computer
Auditing/Monitoring Unit office of the Accountant General of Federation. Your payment file was referred to my desk for approvals before the cash-processing unit was authorized to make cash payment to you.

Ever since, I have been following up your case,but when it was obvious that your fund was about to be revoked, I took immediate action to safeguard the funds from not being confiscated.

Because l was deeply touched that until now you have not received your contract payment The difficulties we are encountering in your contract file is highly complicated,as a letter of affidavit was sent to this office requesting for a change of your account details to a bank in Stuttgart Germany by your attorney and Partners.

The payment investigation /advisory board found out that there are irregularities in the signatures and according to information gathered from the bank computer networks, you have been waiting for a long time to receive your money without success.

And you have almost met all the statutory requirements of the CBN in respect to your contract payment; your problem is that of interest group.

A lot of people are interested in your payment and those people are merely doing paper works with you and that explains why you receive fax and phone messages from different people in Nigeria everyday.

Following the prevailing dishonoring of our remittance instructions and treatment of our credit advice with gross indifference by most recipients to overseas banks in addition to some fraudulent activities going on in the Central Bank, which we have already sent out publications on that effect.

If you had not authorized the change of your bank account in respect of your outstanding Contract Payment, the change of your bank account notification/ declaration was supported with a sworn affidavit from Lagos high court ref: Ilk /jj/20522/k2005, dated 15th September 2004 and signed by one Manfred Alex Klingler who claim and stated in the sworn declaration that you authorized him to claim the contract fund on your
behalf.

The new account is in BANK OF VALLETTA PLC, MALTA, a/c no.40012849840, we have already advised our corresponding bank overseas to release your approved outstanding contract payment in your favor before the affidavit to change your bank account number was submitted to this office.

You are therefore advised in your own interest to confirm to this office, notifying us if you are aware of this new development as our office will not be liable for miss-crediting of client's account.

You have to reconfirm your full contract/ banking co-ordinates information including your telephone, fax and your postal address also your contract numbers.

Please acknowledge the receipt of this message, as this will guide us on what step to take because I have decided to help you by using diplomatic courier means to deliver your contract sum to you through our affiliate office.

In that case, you have to compensate me with anything you deem neccessary,after you must have received your contract payment.

Please, maintain topmost secrecy as it may cause a lot of problem, if it is found out that we are using this way to help you, do not ever tell anybody about this until you have secured your money. As you can see that this is the only way to help you receive your fund. Therefore, if you accept this method call me on the above phone number.

Yours Faithfully,
Dr.Dan.W.Ubadia.
DIRECTOR, CENTRAL COMPUTER AUDITING/MONITORING UNIT,
OFFICE OF THE ACCOUNTANT GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION.

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