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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:
  • "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.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2348053710149 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • michealudo2088@yahoo.com.hk

Fraud email example:

From: "mudo01@terra.es" <mudo01@terra.es>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:21:59 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: PAYMENT NOTIFICATION



PAYMENT NOTIFICATION
Foreign Operation Dept
Tinubu Square Lagos
TEL:+234-8053710149
Email: michealudo2088@yahoo.com.hk
Our ref CBN/TD/0021/069


Attn:

RE: PAYMENT NOTIFICATION OF OLD CONTRACT/INHERITANCE ARREARS.

We have the pleasure to inform you of an approval obtained from the new
President Alhaji Umaru Musa Yaradua. The Senate Committee on
Contract/Inheritance Payments to pay the entire amount owed and due to you
in settlement of fund.

We have noted with concern the wrongful withholding of your long overdue
payment by a syndicate of corrupt public officers who made several
unsuccessful attempts to divert your funds into their corrupt private
accounts overseas. This discovery was made recently by a report submitted
to my office by the President and the Senate Committee for the Review of
Foreign Debts.

Based on this approval, we have already credited the entire sum in you
favour through our overseas paying bank, Please, kindly reconfirm your
details and the Receiving Bank details to confirm with what we have in our
records to avoid wrongful diversion.

On behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria, we regret all financial
losses you may have incurred in the past as a result of official
misconduct and we wish to record here our appreciation for the great
patience exhibited by you and members of your company in waiting for this
payment.

Congratulations!

Yours truly,
Rev.Micheal Udo
CONTROLLER TREASURY BOARD.






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