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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:
  • "his direct line" (a "direct line" in a scam usually means an untraceable mobile phone number used by a scammer in an internet cafe, a redirection service number that forwards to a mobile or a free voicemailbox in a different country.)
  • "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.
  • +23417241073 (Nigeria, landline)
• 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.
  • fidelitybankplc006@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: FIDELITY BANK PLC <fbkplc28@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <fidelitybankplc006@yahoo.co>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 16:11:29 +0100
Subject: INTEREST REMITTANCE ADIVCE



Fidelity Bank Plc RC. 103022 HEAD OFFICE : 2,Kofo Abayomi Street, Victoria Island, Lagos. Tele/Fax: 234-1-7241073 Our Ref: FBP/0905/LD/007 Your Ref:………………… Date:17-05-07 Attention Sir/Madam, RE: INTEREST REMITTANCE ADIVCE This is to officially inform you that we received an instruction from the presidency through our Apex Bank that all accrued interest on contract sum/ inheritant fund that was deposited into our Bank before the principle sum was withdrawn by the Federal Government of Nigeria should not be declared as dividend instead the beneficiary should be contacted and the interest paid to them. You are therefore advice to contact our Accounting Manager Foreign Operation Manager Mr.JAMES ATTA Executive Director on his direct line 234-80-7580-3975 or his private Email: (fidelitybankplc006@yahoo.com) immediately for more directives as there is an accrued interest of $2.5m in your favour as result of your contract sum deposited with us. Equally, note that you may be required to forward your bank information including copies of your international passport or drivers license for identification. We would appreciate your urgent response regarding the aboveInformation as this enables our bank to treat the transfer with urgency. Yours faithfully,MR.James AttaExecutive Director.Foreign Operation Manager.Fidelity Bank Plc.
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