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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.
• 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.
  • +31642877000 (Netherlands, 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.
  • overseascrdtcomm@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Overseas Credit Commission" <frn-overseascreditcomm43@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 18:26:24 +0100
Subject: CONTACT US FOR YOUR PAYMENT

CONTACT US FOR YOUR PAYMENT

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
(OVERSEAS CREDIT COMMISSION)

Laan van meerdervort 75,
2525 LM, Hague
Netherlands
Tel: +31-642 877 000
Fax: +31- 847 216 835
Email: overseascrdtcomm@aim.com

Attention: Honourable Contractor

Sir,

RE: OVERDUE PAYMENT

Following series of complaints and petitions from foreign
Contractors/Beneficiaries over the continous delay in paying of their
contract payment for the contracts executed on behalf of Federal Republic of
Nigeria in the past years, the Presidency in conjunction with the National
Assembly has decided to set up the above commission to look into all cases
of delayed, withheld or suspended payments and make necessary
recommendations to the Government for immediate release of such payment to
the beneficiary from the Federal Government special account.

In this regard, having found your name gazetted in the Government payment
record made available to this Commission as one of the Foreign Contractors
who executed contract with the Ferderal Republic of Nigeria under Category
''A'', we write to inform you that your payment file is among those
currently undergoing verification by this commission.

Consequently, you are hereby advised to contact the above Commission for
your immediate payment as we have been given an order of mandamus to offset
all over due payments to the Contractors/Beneficiaries. This Commission is
abiding by international law and order to treat all matters with ease and
adequate co-operations.

We anticipate your urgent response.

Thanks.

Yours faithfully,

Mr. Abubakar Usman

_________________________________________________________________
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