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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:
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
  • "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 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.
  • william_colgate03@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "william_c@terra.es" <william_c@terra.es>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:43:57 +0100 (MET)
Subject: From Desk Of The President


From Desk Of The President
PRESIDENTIAL COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN PAYMENTS
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT
CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA {CBN}
SWIFT CREDIT CARD PAYMENT
Attn:
Going by series of petitions
received from International Body on the way your inheritance/contract fund was handled by our correspondence office and after Extentive close door meeting with Board of Directors and other Stake holders in the
Government, Subcommittees of the National Assembly
of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
It was Resolved and Agreed upon that
your Heritance/contract Fund would be released on a special method of payment , which is tagged SWIFT CREDIT CARD.This method of
payment is designed by the Government to avert fraud
perpetration or stoppage of fund by Some Agencies.Either Through
Anti Terrorist Certificate or other certificates.This Swift
Credit Card would be issued to you upon meeting with the Bank
Requirements.This office, has Been Mandated to take charge of the
Issuance of the SWIFT CREDIT CARD .And that your inheritance
payment file should be passed to my desk for clarification .Upon
Certification that your file is ok.This Office would Direct you on
how to receive your over Due inheritance/contract fund via SWIFT CREDIT CARD.The SWIFT CREDIT CARD would be delivered to you via Courier. In the light of this aforementioned, You are required to furnish this office with the following information:
Your Name: Address. Madian
Name Your Next of Kin
and your date of Birth.Your telephone
number and fax.
This Information would be used in openning of an
account here .It's from here that the ATM would be used in
issuance of The SWIFT CREDIT CARD in your favour with the Credit
card Number and all your information inserted into the card. Upon
completion of this issuance of the Credit Card,It would be sent to
you via Courier to your residential Address.
Urgently furnish this office with your Contact information inorder to reconfirm if it's in line with the one contained in our payment data.
Be informed that your fund has been called back and it's now in a suspence Account here in Our Bank. A new Account has to be opened in your Name Before The Swift Credit Card is issued.
Waiting for an urgent response.
Yours Faithfully,
DR.william colgate
Reply Email: william_colgate03@excite.com





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