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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:
  • "the consignment" (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)
  • "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "abuja" (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: Presidential Office Foreign Payment Office <p8of@live.co.uk>
Reply-To: <pforeignpo@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:43:15 +0000
Subject: BE GUIDED



Presidential Office Foreign Payment Office,Cash Processing Department.Aso-Rock Buildings, Abuja.

CONSIGNMENT DELIVERING NOTICE

Attn: The Beneficiary,

We are in respects to the returned consignments we received write to inform you that, the foreign boards processing cash payments have passed instructions to central bank of Nigeria to let you know that some consignment was sent to us by the custom officer's in London UK as one of unclaimed truck consignments and the consignment bears your name in the labels of the consignment items as the beneficiary but without your home address.We than, decided to order central bank of Nigeria to contact you through your email id and have the consignment ship to you through the assigns cargo delivering agents in Spain, because the management’s boards have advice that if the consignment did not quickly forward to your claim it will be automatically listed for destruction.
Inline with this order, our exercise demands proper verification and inspection to know what is inside the consignment before destroying it. the consignment was scanned and finds out that the contents inside the consignment was cash monies of America dollars currencies of (USD11.4million) in a bundles of one hundred dollars denominations though it was not declared in the manifest. And we have been warned that know one should open it until you receive it by yourself and the key combinations number will be given to you.
We therefore, look forward to receive your advice in regards to this information we pass to you of when you will be meeting with cargo agents in Spain to take deliver of your funds consignment from them because we are seriously warned by our government to declare it for appropriation but being that the funds is huge and one can not afford to loose such opportunity.
Please immediately after reading this message forward your delivering address and your contact telephone number with a proof identification to avoid delivering to wrong person and once we receive this informations we will forward to you the contact details of the cargo delivering agents in Spain for you to contact them and book appointment of coming to claim your consignment from them. Treat Urgently With Understanding,and our NO: remains,+ 234 708 428 1994.
Dr.Johnson Uba.
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