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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)
  • "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.
  
• 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.
  • ifomaalupu@yahoo.co.in (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: ouroffice24 <ouroffice24@gadball.com>
Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 05:00:59 -0700
Subject: Attention: Beneficiary,SCAMMED VICTIM



Attention: Beneficiary,
 
SCAMMED VICTIM/ $1.5million COMPENSATION-REF/PAYMENTS CODE: 06654. We
were delegated by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission [ EFCC ]
Nigeria  in conjunction with the United Nations to pay 200
Americans,Asia Europe etc who  were scammed by Nigerian  419
artists/pepetrators the sum of $1.5million each,  you are listed and
approved for this payments as one of the scammed victims,  get back
to us as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your
$1.5million compensations funds.
 
In view of this recommendations, I want you to know that during the
last UN and  EFCC meetings held at Abuja, Nigeria, it was alarmed so
much by the rest of the  world in the meetings on the lose of funds
by various oreigners to the scams artists operating in syndicates all
over the world today, In other to retain the good image of this
country, the president (Alhaji Umaru Musa Yaraduh) has instructed
the  payment of 200 victims the sum of$1.5million each via.Willbros
express securities under funding assistance  by the Central Bank of
Nigeria.According to the number of applicants at  hand, 85
beneficiaries has been paid.we  still have more left to be paid the
compensations of $1.5million.
 
Your particulars was mentioned by one of the syndicates who was
arrested in  Imo State Nigeria as one of their victims of the
operations, you are hereby  warned not to communicate or duplicate
this message to him for any reason whatsoever, Efcc in surpport of the
US secret service is already on trace of the criminal. For more vital
information, You will receive your compensations payments via a ATM
PAYMENTS and not a WIRE TRANSFERS; I shall feed you with further
modalities as soon as I hear from you.Please get back to me through my
private box:E- mail::[ ifomaalupu@yahoo.co.in]

 
Yours faithfully,

DR IFOMA ALUPU ,
De-facto Chief CompensationOfficer,
EFCC And United Nations Compensation Committee,
(United nations Anti-fraud Committee)

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