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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "abuja" (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 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.
  • thomas.gomez@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "thomasgomez1@terra.es" <thomasgomez1@terra.es>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 09:25:45 +0100 (MET)
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED.



FROM THE DESK OF DR. THOMSON GOMEZ
(CHAIRMAN FOREIGN CONTRACTORS RECONCCLIATION COMMITTEE)
NO 202 WUSE ZONE 2,
MAITAMA LAYOUT,
ABUJA,NIGERIA.

ATTN: THE PRESIDENT/ CEO,

I am DR. THOMSON GOMEZ,Chairman Foreign/Local Contractor's Reconciliation Committee, here in Nigeria, formed by the President Olusegun Obasanjo Government to look into Contractors payment and to make sure that each and every one of them that has his or her complete required documents receive their payments before the expiration of his tenure in office come may,2007.


Right now there is a file on my table with an amount of USD$45.5M (FORTY FIVE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS), which no contractor has ever come to claim, with contract number NNPC/PED/2101196 but after all investigations, we found out it was the handwork of some officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria that connived with their foreign counterparts to claim the fund for their own interest.


But Unfortunately they where not able to conclude the transaction before
some of them where sacked and some where Retaired because of their
fraudulent atitude in the bank. Meanwhile, as the Chairman of this
committee, I And my persnal Assistant are the only people that knows about
this file, and Now I am looking for a Foreign partner who can help us
financially in order to Change the important documents on his or her name to
enable me transfer the fund in his/her account because I can not afford all
the money involved and as a Civil servant I am not authorised to operate a
foreign account

SO if you are interested in this Transation the sharing goes as FOLLOWS:

30% is for you, as the owner of the account.
60% is for me and my persnal Assistant as the principal actors.
10% is for unforeseen expenses in the course of the transaction.

SIR/Madam, if you are interested don´t hesitate to get back to me as soon as
possible so as to discuse on how to make the Changes on the Documents,
definitely within 14working days from the day of the Changes, the money will
be in your account.
Your quick reply is urgently needed.

Thanks and God bless you.

Yours faithfully
Dr. Thomson Gomez COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN. (FLCFC)
Private Email:thomas.gomez@hotmail.com






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