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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "waiting for your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: REVDUNCAN SMITH0012 <revduncansmith0012@yahoo.es>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:53:28 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: URGENT!!!!!Kind: Attention: Jolan Hirsch


Kind: Attention: Jolan Hirsch",

Listen carefully, this information is real from the office of the Central bank of Nigeria and was acoustically inaugurated by the Governor Central bank of Nigeria Professor C.C Soludo/The new elected President of Nigeria Alhaji Musa Umar Yar’Adua, as we are instructed that your name was been in verged from the Media /Global assets as one of the lucky beneficiaries to be paid the mentioned fees of $6 mUSD,through our electronically payment data in any ATM machine in any global Country, so you are hereby instructed to immediately forward the required information required by the Managements of this office of the ATM CARD department for the immediate delivery of your ATM CARD package to the information’s you are to forward.

Regards,
Rev.Duncan Smith.
(Paymaster General) CBN ATM DEPARTMENT.

Waiting for your urgent response as to enable the effect of the delivery



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