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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "diplomatic immunity"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "clearance certificate" (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "diplomatic immunity" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "diplomatic courier" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "charles soludo" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "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 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.
  • +2348067472888 (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.
  • soludoxx2@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "xx xx" <xx30qq@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 09:27:31 -0800
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY PAYMENT.

FROM THE DESK OF: PROF. CHARLES SOLUDO
GOVERNOR, CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
Email:soludoxx2@yahoo.com
Tel:+234-8067472888.

CONFIDENTIAL DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY PAYMENT.

Good Day To You,

I am PROF. CHARLES SOLUDO, The Governor Central Bank Of Nigeria. I decided
to contact you because of the prevailing security report reaching my office
and the intense nature of polity in Nigeria.

This is to inform you about our plan to send your fund to you via cash
delivery,this system will be easier for you and for us. We are going to send
your contract part payment of US$20 Million to you via diplomatic courier
service. I have secured every needed document to cover the money. Note,The
money is coming on 2 security proof boxes,The boxes are sealed with
synthetic nylon seal and padded with machine.

I will use my position as the Deputy Governor Central Bank Of Nigeria to
release this fund to you. The boxes are coming with a Diplomatic agent who
will accompany the boxes to your house address. All you need to do now I to
send to me:

1. Your full names and house address.
2. Your identity such as, international passport or driver's license. 3.
Your contact phone and fax numbers, The Diplomatic attached will travel with
this required information's for the delivery of your fund. He will call you
immediately he arrives your country's airport. I hope you understand me.

I will let you know when the consignments will be lifted, and Note: The
diplomatic does not know the original contents of the boxes. What declared
to them as the contents is Sensitive Photographic Film Material. I did not
declare money to them please. If they call you and ask you the contents
please tell them the same thing ok.

Call me on my direct mobile: +234-8067472888. and will let you know how far
I have gone with the arrangement. I will secure the Diplomatic immunity
clearance certificate that will be tagged on the boxes to make it stand as
a diplomatic consignment, which I will dispatch along with the security
inner Keys of the consignments to enable you access these consignments has
soon as it delivered to you.This clearance will make it pass every custom
checkpoint all over the world without hitch.

Confirm the receipt of this message and send the requirements to me
immediately you receive this message through my private email address:
soludoxx2@yahoo.com

Please I need your urgent reply because the boxes are schedule to airlift as
soon as we hear from you. Call me immediately you receive this message.

Best Regards,

PROF. CHARLES SOLUDO
Governor, Central Bank Of Nigeria.
Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Tel:+234-8067472888.

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