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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)
  • "certified bank draft" (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash. If it's a lottery prize, remember that real lotteries do not pay large prizes by check. They wire the money directly to your bank account and you do not pay for that. Many scammers promise a large check only in order to then demand payment of courier fees for a fake courier service. )
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • +2348085998911 (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.
  • mroyoforkvictor@yahoo.it

Fraud email example:

From: info_me@freenet.de
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:36:51 +0200
Subject: Attention: Beneficiary


NATIONAL SENATE COMMITTE RECOVERY FUND (NSCRFUND)
OFFICE OF THE
PRESIDENT FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
FOREIGN PAYMENT AUTHORIZATION
BOARD
Block 11, Presidential Liaison Complex,
Marina -
Lagos.
Nigeria
DIRECT TEL: +234 8085998911
Direct E-mail:
MROYOFORKVICTOR@YAHOO.IT

Telegram: PRESIDENCY/FCPAB

Date: 29th APRIL, 2008

Attention: Beneficiary


RE: PAYMENT OF OUTSTANDING INHERITANCE/CONTRACT FUND VIA CERTIFIED
BANK
DRAFT/WIRE TRANSFER

This is to inform you that the Presidency has
stepped into the payment
of your Inheritance/Contract fund. The
instruction to this Board to
authorize your payment was given by the
President Chief Umaru Yar\'Adua
following intelligence report on
foreign payment he received which
revealed that the lower offices and
department including some departments of
Standard Security Firms,
Commercial Banks and Industrial Bank, are
engaging in the practice of
payment delays through unnecessary use of
bureaucratic office process
and imposition of unauthorized fees. This apart
has been allegations
that some officials of the listed banks above
deliberately divert funds
approved with the name of a beneficiary to
accounts that were not given
by the known Next of kin/Contractor\'s after the
due processing and
approval of such payment.

To avoid and curtail such, official
misconduct and deliberate delay of
foreign Inheritance/Contract payment
under one flimsy reason or the
other, the President of the country
therefore mandated this office to
raise beneficiary payment and ensure
that such payments are received by the
beneficiary inheritance payment
within a short period of five (5) days
from the day of notice. Based on
the information contained in your
inheritance/Contract files and
records submitted to us from the above
listed financial institutions
your name was in the list of Category “A”

Inheritance/Contract claim whose payment have been verified and
approved
with the records indicating that your payment has long been
over due.

The directive from the President based on all these findings
is that
this office should make immediately and uninterrupted payments
of your
inheritance fund direct from the Federal Treasury. Other
offices
including any of the above listed banks earlier handling your
payment have been
advised to hand over to this office to avoid
duplication of efforts,
though such offices hesitate to let you know of
this new development.In
respect of this, this office held a meeting
with the representatives of
concerned government bodies during which
your inheritance/Contract
file and other informations of your payment
were submitted. After going
through your file a lot of official
regularities, impending stop orders
and complexities surrounding the
payment were discovered. This office
and the concerned bodies
unanimously decided and approved that your
inheritance payment will be
raised in Certified International Bank Draft/ or
Bank to Bank wire
transfer. The Check / draft or Bank to Bank wir!
e transfer will be
done either in your name or in the name of your
Company as the
beneficiary. You are therefore advised to liaise
immediately on receipt
of this notice for further directives.

Yours faithfully,
Mr Oyofor
Kazeem Victor
Direct E-mail:
MROYOFORKVICTOR@YAHOO.IT
Chairman: Foreign Payment Authorization Board


FCPAB Chairman and President
Adviser on Foreign Payment
Warning: Contractors/Beneficiaries are
advised to adhere strictly to
this directive. Any fund beneficiary who
ignores this instruction will be
Doing that at his own risk and should
not blame the Nigerian
Government for non payment.

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