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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:
  • "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.
  • paul.miller121@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: paul miller <paul_miller921@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <paul.miller121@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 14:20:33 -0400
Subject: Overdue Payment






External Review Committee on Debt.
Central Bank of Nigeria in Collaboration with IMF,
International Credit Settlement Dept.

Attention Beneficiary:
We wish to inform you that your overdue payment of $280,000.00 has be scheduled to be paid to you through our Automated teller machine card (ATM Card) which you will only be required to proceed to any ATM Cash Point to withdraw the sum of $5,000 per day till the payment is completed.

This development is as a result of a new payment policy carried out by Central Bank of Nigeria in collaboration with International Monetary Fund in accordance with the World Bank 2007 payment constitution. We have gone through your files and have discovered why you have not received your payments yet. Firstly you refused to follow the necessary step needed for the process to be successful and by doing that we suspend your account.

Secondly we have been informed that you are still dealing with none bank officials, please such an act will have to stop immediately if you still wish to receive your payments. Since we have decided to bring a solution to your problem we have arranged to make payments through our swift card payment which is the latest instruction by the new elected president Alhaji Musa Umaru Yar’Adua (GCFR) Federal Republic of Nigeria.

This joint effort is to help Central Bank of Nigeria to restrict and monitor every international transaction, to avoid money laundry activities and to help fight fraudulent activities from scam experts. Furthermore you are advised to contact me ASAP for the issuance of your ATM card and my e-mail address is paul.miller121@gmail.com. When you contact me, kindly provide your;

1. Full Name (As Stated in your ID) 2. Contact Address3. Telephone/Fax number
4. Current Occupation5. Nationality:6. Age/Sex
7. Desired Pin Number

All this will be used to process and acquire your ATM card and immediately this is done we will then dispatch your ATM card to you. The International Credit Settlement Dept has been mandated to issue out $280,000.00 to you and we will like this to be done without any further delays. We will inform you more on the next procedure to take when we hear from you. We hope you do get in touch with us so that we can process and finalize your documents.

Thanks,
Paul Tijani-Miller.
Accounts officer.
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