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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 fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
  
  1. They don't notify winners by email.
  2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
  3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
  4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
  5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
  6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
  7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
• 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.
  • johnbarry.hsbc_01@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: tuomas saarenheimo <saarenheimo413@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <johnbarry.hsbc_01@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 14:43:47 +0100
Subject: IMF PAYMENT DIRECTIVE



IMF PAYMENT DIRECTIVE International Monetary Fund (IMF)Office Of: Mr. Tuomas Saarenheimo700 19th street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20431 23th May 2007 Attn:Sir The second joint quarter of the year meeting of the IMF, World Bank, EU and AU’s representatives and the Federal Government of Nigeria regarding the latter’s debt forgiveness and management was held on 14th and 15th May 2007. The meeting was targeted at providing additional funds for the payment of contractors and debts owned by the FGN and its institutions. The Nigeria government via the chairman of the Nigerian Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debt, Alhaji Yusha'u Mohammed Anka’s suggested during the meeting that the money, allegedly looted by late General Abacha and now in our (IMF) custody in a London and Netherlands’ bank will be used for the settlement of Nigeria's foreign debts. This forms part of a debt initiative for Nigeria with the International Monetary Fund and Paris Club of official creditors. Following our negotiation and agreement which was based on the new Joint BIS IMF-OECD-World Bank Statistics on Nigeria External Debt and in view of the report received by this office concerning debt mismanagement by the Nigerian Government and their officials; you are requested to contact our paying bank in London with the below information for the collection of your due payment as already had been made available. Bank Name: HSBC – LondonContact Person: Mr. JOHNSON BARRY Fax: 44 (0) 20 7504 8090Tel: 44 (0) 20 7504 8709Email: johnbarry.hsbc_01@yahoo.co.uk Payment directive was few minutes after the meeting issued to HSBC - London regarding your payment. You should therefore make haste and contact Mr. JOHNSON BARRY so that you benefit in this first phase of the payment. This is an opportunity that you can’t miss. IMF is now closely monitoring your payment. The years are gone that you chase shadow. We are fully in charge and crave your indulgence to adhere to this instruction. Don’t fail to notify us of the completion of your payment as soon as remittance is made into your account for our record purposes. We use this medium to inform you of the activities of “some” unpatriotic Nigerians who use their position in office for fraudulent activities. We have been fully informed of their activities, which incidentally led to the formation of the Joint BIS-IMF-OECD-World Bank delegation by the International Monetary Fund. It is a delegation that comprises of members of the International Bank for Settlement, organization for Economic & Co-Operative Development, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and The Federal Government Of Nigeria via EFCC. You are therefore advice to stop further correspondent with anybody from and outside Nigeria regarding this transaction unless by our directives. We also expect that you forward to us the names, telephone, fax and contact details of those people you believe must have defrauded or attempted to defraud you in the past on the above number. If you want to send a fax follow the voice instruction. We are prepared to sanitize Nigeria and your frank contribution will go a long way in assisting us. Yours faithfully.Tuomas SaarenheimoFor: IMF – Washington DC
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