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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:
  • "diplomatic courier" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "affidavit " (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "charles c. soludo" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +23414075718 (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.
  • presidentialboard999@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: PRESIDENTIAL BOARD <presidentialboards1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <presidetialboard999@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:47:54 +0100
Subject: VERIFICATION OF BENEFICIARY



REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA,DEBT SETTLEMENT COMMITTEE,TINUBU SQUARE, LAGOS.Tel/Fax: 234-1-407-5718E-MAIL:presidentialboard999@yahoo.co.uk
MR .IDRIS BANMADirector-General, Debt Management Dept. (DMD)

VERIFICATION OF BENEFICIARY,(GEORGE MARIN)

Following the revalidation and approval of the president for payment of all verified contract/next of kin beneficiaries payment by the incoming government that took over power on May 29th 2007, held in the Central bank of Nigeria and most of our commercial banks for unconstitutional reasons, be informed that an irrevocable payment approval was given and endorsed by the President Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof. Charles C. Soludo and some high powered governmental bodies having found your payment entitled satisfactory after due scrutiny.

The meeting was held in conjunction with the directors of this ministry, the National Economic Council presidents, directors in charge of project implementation, involved in various contracts, the bankers committee, the senate committee on banking and finance, the governing board of the central bank of Nigeria and the Chief Adviser to the President on Economic matters respectively.
Be advise that in strict compliance to the resolution, your payment wasendorsed and schedule to be released among other beneficiaries payments on the 10th of December, 2006 by telegraphic transfer otherwise called (Bank to Bank Wire Transfer) or by (ATM CARD) via Diplomatic Courier to avoid and unnecessary delay. On notification of payment, this was also published in our weekly financial contract payment release schedule.

To my greatest surprise, two gentlemen came to my office this morning,one barrister Bankole Oshomoluwe and Mr. Fredrick Race a Canadian, that they are representatives of your company. They presented an Affidavit of Death Certificate that you are dead, that you died in an auto crash and based on the meeting held with other directors of your company he (Mr. Fedrick) was assigned to follow up the payment and court granted him authorization to your payment.

He also presented photocopies of your payment releasing document and offered me the sum of $5,000 dollars cash to enable me facilitate the final release of the payment to a new account they provided.

Stunned by this shocking news of your death, in sympathy andmost importantly for religious reasons I refused the $5,000 offered me but I accepted the documents and told them to come back on the 15th of July, 2007, to enable me work on the file, on a second thought I decided to send this mail in other to confirm the authenticity of this information hence I have your mail.I will therefore be appreciative if you get this mail and reply me immediately and reconfirm your payment details for proper identification.

WARNING: THIS COMMUNIQUE IS IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXECUTIVE BOARD OF TRUSTEE ON CONTRACT PAYMENT UPON THE ADVICE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER ON CONTRACT MATTERS.

BENEFICIARIES WHO IGNORE INSTRUCTIONS WILL BE DOING SO AT HIS OR HER OWN RISK AND SHOULD NOT BLAME THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA FOR NON-PAYMENT OF THEIR CONTRACT FUNDS.Yours faithfully,
MR. IDRIS BANMADirector-General, Debt Management Dept. (DMD)
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