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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:
  • "money laundering" ("anti-terrorist", "anti-money laundering" or "drug-free" certificates are a common way for criminals in fake lottery scams and other Advance Fee scams to get you to send money to them. There are no such certificates in the real banking world. )
  • "million dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "nuhu ribadu" (This name is often mentioned in money recovery scams (re-scam): the real EFCC does not contact victims to offer to get their money back because that is near impossible. )
  • "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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: Efcc Scamrescue <efcc_scamrescue2008@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <efcc_scamrescue@afrikamail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 23:56:59 +0000
Subject: ATTENTION TO EFCC REFUNDABLE.



From: Alhaji Nuhu Ribadu, Chairman,Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),15 Awins Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, SIR/MADAMGOOD DAY I AM NUHU RIBADU CHAIRMAN ECONOMICAL AND FINANCIAL CRIME COMISSION A COMMITTEE FORMED BY FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA BY RESIDENT OLUSEGUN OBASANJO. FIRST WE INTRODUCES THIS COMMISSION, Economic & Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) WE FIGHT CYBER CRIME FRAUD SCAM MONEY LAUNDERING IN AFRICA.OUR COMMISSION HAS BEEN IN EXSITANCES SINCE 2004. www.efccnigeria.org/index.php? OUR DUTIES IS TO STOP INTERNET FRAUD SCAM. AS FOR TODAY WE HAVE PUT ALOT OF PEOPLE FRAUDSTERS BEHIND BARS ALOT OF THEM ARE IN JAIL WE GO ALL OVER AFRICA TO PICK THIS THIEFS.WE HAVE OVER 3000 OF THEM IN OUR JAILS ROUND AFRICA AND WE ARE STILL LOOKING FOR MORE, WE ARE AWARE THAT A LOT OF FOREIGNERS OUT THERE HAVE BEEN DECEIVED TRICKED AND LOST A LOT OF MONEY. TO THIS FRAUD STERS AFTER PROMISEING YOU PERCENTAGES IN THEIR LETTERS FOR YOU TO HELP THEM MOVE FUNDS AT THE END OF THE DAY THEY WILL COLLECT THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FROM YOU MAKING YOU A POOR PERSON.ALL THE AFRICAN CRIME FIGHTING LEADERS HAVE COME TOGETHER TO INFORM THE WORLD WHAT IS GOING ON NOW AND WE HAVE RECOVED OVER $322 MILLION DOLLARS(THREE HUNDREN AND TWENTY TWO MILLION DOLLARS) FROM THE PEOPLE WE HAVE BEHIND BARS. THE ONLY REASON WE ARE WRITTING YOU THIS LETTER, IS BECAUSE WE FEEL WE HAVE TO BROAD CAST THIS MAIL IN ORDER TO REACH EVERYONE THAT HAS BEEN DEFRAUDED.OUR ACTION NOW IS TO REFUND BACK MONEY TO FOREIGNERS WHO LOST MONEY TO THESE THIEFS. WE ARE PAYING BACK FROM THE MONEY WE RECOVERED.WE CAN ONLY REFUND YOU IF YOUR NAME IS MENTIONED AND YOU SHOW US PROVE OF HOW MUCH YOU LOST.IF THIS LETTER GETS TO YOU THEN YOU ARE MENTIONED. BUT IF ITS GETS TO YOU BY MISTAKE AND YOU HAVE NOT LOST ANY MONEY THEN PLEASE DISREGARD IT.IF YOU KNOW ANY PERSON FAMILY OR FRIEND THAT HAS LOST MONEY TO FRAUDSTARS PLEASE TELL HIM/HER TO WRITE TO THIS COMMISSION WITH PROVES AND WE WILL HANDLE HIS/HER CASE THEN PAY BACK AFTER VERIFICATION. WE ARE AWARE THIS FRAUDSTARS HAS BROKEN ALOT OF HOME, MADE ALOT OF PEOPLE TO LOSE THEIR JOB, SELL THEIR PROPERTIES,CLOSED THEIR BUSINESS,PUT MANY ON THE STREET, MADE ALOT TO EVEN LOSE THEIR LIFE. PLEASE YOU ARE TO REACH US IN OUR EMAIL ADDRESS ABOVE FOR FUTHER CLERIFICATIONS ON HOW YOU ARE TO RECEIVE YOUR LOST FUNDS YOU ARE TO FORWARD YOUR FULL PARTICULARS AND RECENT TELPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS TO OUR EMAIL ADDRESS ABOVE ON IF YOU ARE A VICTIM AND IF YOU OF SOMEONE OR A FAMILY THAT HAS BEEN DEFRAUDED YOU CAN FORWARD THIS EMAIL ADDRESS TO THEM.REGARDS For further information contact:Alhaji Nuhu Ribadu, Chairman,Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),15 Awins Road, Ikoyi, Lagos,Email: efcc_scamrescue@afrikamail.com
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