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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "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.
  
• 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.
  • wahidmusa01@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: wahid musa <wahidmusa21@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <wahidmusa01@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:44:11 +0000
Subject: YOUR URGENT REPLY NEEDED.


Dear Sir/MadamFollowing the inability of Failed Banks in Nigeria, where you have your unpaid Inheritance Claims and Contract Payments, to meet the Central Bank of Nigeria Bench Mark on Capitalization, which resulted to it’s liquidation by Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation in 2005/2006 fiscal year. In line with the promises made by NDIC to alleviate the burden of Depositors and Contractors whose funds are trapped in all the failed banks. We have been directed to inform you that the first bit of life-line compensation shall be paid to you and others pending when the NDIC has completely disposed the assets/liabilities of these banks. Fund recipients whose funds are with Central bank of Nigeria, which the inability of the failed banks to discount CBN treasury bills, arising from their insolvency, which prevented CBN to carry out the cross-border transfer request on the grounds that they were not able to cash back their requisition transfer request are also included in this aspect, as NDIC is a subsidiary of the Apex Bank. By this notice, your payment transfer fails under category “A”, which qualifies you to receive a life –line compensation of $650,000 United States dollars pending when NDIC has come out with the legal amount due to you. To enable us transfer this amount due to you, kindly re-confirm your account with us, this will exonerate us from any blame, should you account has been changed from what we saw in your file. Thank you for your understanding as you help us in harmonizing some much anomalies that were created when dubious officials and impostors took advantage of the circumstance to perpetrate their nefarious activities that were misguided to fund recipints.Your are advice to get back on this address: wahidmusa01@yahoo.co.uk Sincerely, Wahid Musa
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