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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:
  • "inheritance funds" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "my direct line" (a "direct line" in a scam usually means an untraceable mobile phone number used by a scammer in an internet cafe, a redirection service number that forwards to a mobile or a free voicemailbox in a different country.)
  • "power of attorney" (with your bank details and a power of attorney form criminals sometimes empty bank accounts)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "international remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
  • "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +2348024988963 (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.
  • jajamorrisgolf@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "morris morris" <morrisjaja1@mailbox.hu>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 15:23:19 +0100
Subject: YOUR URGENT REPLY NEEDED


CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN)
INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT.
TEL:234-80 24988963


LETTER OF ENQUIRY ON INHERITANCE PAYMENT.

WE WRITE TO ENQUIRE FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE SENT SOMEBODY FROM SWITZERLAND MR
SCHEMIRLAT AND SOME NIGERIA REPRESENTATIVE INCLUDING YOUR ATTORNEY
BARRISTER ADE TO THE CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN) TO MAKE CLAIM ON YOUR
BEHALF. THIS YOUR FUND HAS BEEN CALLED BACK BY THEY CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
SINCE JANUARY 2008 FROM ABI BANK LONDON DUE TO THERE INABILITY TO HANDLE
THE TRANSACTION.

TODAY AT ABOUT 10.00 AM NIGERIA TIME, MR SCHEMIRLAT AND YOUR NIGERIAN
REPRESENTATIVE CAME TO THE BANK SAYING THAT YOU HAVE SENT THEM TO MAKE CLAIM
ON YOUR BEHALF ON YOUR INHERITANCE FUNDS $10.5M USD.

I INITIALLY INSTRUCTED FOR THE RELEASE OF THE FUND TO THEM AS THEY CAME
WITH ALL OBLIGATORY DOCUMENTS, BUT ON CROSS CHECKING YOUR INHERITANCE FILE,
I DISCOVERED THAT THE BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER THEY PRESENTED WAS DIFFERENT FROM
YOUR OWN BANK ACCOUNT AND THE BENEFICARY OF THE ACCOUNT THE BROUGHT IS
CHANGORI AND CHANGORI THAT'S MAKE US TO SUSPECT THEM, THIS IS A SERIOUS
MATTER IN THE APEX BANK NOW AND WE HAVE GIVEN A MANDATE TO RELEASE THIS
FUND TO YOU BY THE PRESIDENCY.

NOW WE HAVE REQUESTED THEM TO FORWARD A POWER OF ATTORNEY FROM YOU,
INFORMING THE CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN) OF THE CHANGE IN ACCOUNT
NUMBER.THIS THEY COULD NOT PRODUCE IMMEDIATELY. I HAVE ASKED THEM TO COME
BACK IN TWO DAYS TIME, THIS IS TO ENABLE US CONTACT YOU AND VERIFY HOW
GENUINE THESE TWO PEOPLE ARE TO YOU, THOUGH THEY PROMISED TO PRODUCE THE
POWER OF ATTORNEY ON THEIR NEXT VISIT TO THE BANK.

I HAVE DEEMED IT NECESSARY TO CONTACT YOU AND ASCERTAIN THE TRUE POSITION IN
OTHER TO AVOID REMITTING THESE FUNDS INTO A WRONG ACCOUNT. COULD YOU PLEASE
CONTACT THE UNDERSIGNED THROUGH THE MAIL, TO CONFIRM MATTERS BEFORE WE START
TAKING LEGAL ACTION, BUT IF THEY ARE FROM YOU, KINDLY GIVE THEM THE POWER OF
ATTORNEY FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE INHERITANCE FUNDS INTO THE SWITZERLAND
ACCOUNT(UBS) AG BANKING SWITZERLAND. YOU SHOULD NOTE THAT BY THE AUTHORITIES
OF THE PRESIDENCY, AND IN LINE WITH THE ENABLING DECREE OF 512 "A" IN
CONSULTATION WITH THE RELEVANT BODIES; THE CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN),
THE NATIONAL ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE (NEIC) AND THE FEDERAL MINISTRY
OF FINANCE (FMF), WE HAVE RESOLVED THAT ALL OVERDUE INHERITANCE PAYMENTS BE
RELEASED THIS QUARTER IN ABSOLUTE OBEDIENCE TO THE I.M.F AND WORLD BANK
MANDATORY CONDITIONALITIES OF SERVICE TO OUR FOREIGN CAPITAL DEBTS. BASED ON
THIS, THIS OFFICE HAS BEEN MANDATED BY THE PRESIDENCY TO HANDLE ALL
PAYMENTS DUE TO FOREIGN INHERITANCE.

GOING THROUGH YOUR RECORD WITH GOLF BANK PLC WE FIND OUT THAT YOU HAVE
SPENT SO MUCH MONEY WITH OUT RESULT THAT WAS WHY THE APEX WITH DIRECTIVE
FROM THE PRESIDENCY HAS DECIDED TO HANDLE THIS PAYMENT BY THEMSELF.ALSO
THROUGH OUR OBSERVATION WE FIND OUT THAT YOUR ATTORNEY BARRSITER ADE IS ALSO
MAKING THINGS HARD, THATS, WHY YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED THIS FUND.

YOU SHOULD THEREFORE DISREGARD ANY CORRESPONDENCE THAT YOU MAY HAVE OR MAY
COME TO YOU FROM ANY OTHER PERSON OR DEPARTMENT.IF YOU REALLY NEED THIS
MONEY BECAUSE WE HAVE GONE THROUGH YOUR FILE AND WE FIND OUT THAT YOU ARE
THE ORIGINAL BENEFICIARY OF THE INHERITANCE FUND. PLEASE ASSIST US TO
EXPEDITE ACTION AND GET BACK TO ME IMMEDIATELY YOU RECEIVE THIS MAIL
NOW.YOU CAN CALL ME ON MY DIRECT LINE 234-80 24988963 I AM WAITING FOR YOUR
PROMPT RESPONSE AND CO-OPERATION. PLEASE CONTACT US THROUGH THIS EMAIL
ADDRESS(jajamorrisgolf@yahoo.com)

YOURS FAITHFULLY,


DR.JAJA MORRIS
INTERNTIONAL REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT.

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