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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:
  • "economic and financial crime commission" (This name is often mentioned in money recovery scams (re-scam): the real EFCC does not contact victims to offer to get their money back because that is near impossible. )
  • "nuhu ribadu" (This name is often mentioned in money recovery scams (re-scam): the real EFCC does not contact victims to offer to get their money back because that is near impossible. )
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Western Union money transfer is completely untraceable and therefore is *not* safe to use with anyone you do not know personally. It is the preferred method of online criminals to collect money from their victims.
• 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.
  • verification.unit.efcc1@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Economic and Financial Crime Commission" <efccng6056@bigmir.net>
Reply-To: verificationdepartunitefcc.nig@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 16:03:52 +0200
Subject: ATTENTION: BENEFICIARY


* [image: Nigerian Flag]
<http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/5/53/100px-Efcc_logo.png&imgrefurl=http://www.answers.com/topic/economic-and-financial-crimes-commission&h=100&w=100&sz=22&hl=en&start=3&tbnid=-u3WDK9Jy4RLLM:&tbnh=82&tbnw=82&prev=/images%3Fq%3DEfcc%2BLogo%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG><http://www.efccnigeria.org=/>
*
*FROM THE DESKTOP OF THE CHAIRMAN ECONOMIC FINANCIAL AND CRIME COMMISSION
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA*
**
*ATTENTION: BENEFICIARY

**How are you? i hope you are fine. Well, I believe by the time you will be
through with this email you will understand and surely place your mind at
rest as you are going to start a new life in no distance time. Most families
have lost lives, homes and there great wealth due to the high rate of fraud
and scams that has been all over the Nation and the world in general, but
since the setup of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission for the
purpose,these crimes has been reduced and we are fighting heavily to put
this to an end.

Right now, [900 million] a billion us Dollars has been recovered from these
fraudsters through our Intelligence network, and most suspects are still in
on our custody for proper investigations and trials. Your name has been
found in our list of those that has been defrauded through some of these
media, Account/Western union money transfer and others. The western union
money transfer that has been sent so far to some countries like London
Ghana,Togo,Spain,South Africa and United States etc are being received here
in our country by these scammers in the name of having transaction that you
don't know about. Because of this you have approved to recieve the sum of
$850,000.00 usd for compansetion. *
**
*An instruction has been giving that in no account should any money be paid
to an individual through any means without a proper investigation. We have
our agents in the bank all round the World with proper security to checkmate
these scammers and any bank that goes contrary to our instruction will stand
the risk of losing its certificate of accreditation.If this is true about
you, do not border much because it is time for you to regain what you have
lost .This wonderful compansetion program was introduced by the new
President Alhaji Musa Yar'radua.

All you need to do is to contact the head of verification department with
your full name,for further clarification and screening after that they will
issue you your file number,ref number and link you to the (First bank of
Nigeria Plc) where your approved fund of $850,000.00 was deposited. Below is
the contact information verification office.

OFFICE OF VERIFICATION ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION
Dr Kingsley Adams Contact person
Email: **verification.unit.efcc1@hotmail.com*<verification.unit.efcc1@hotmail.com>


* Sign
Mallam Nuhu Ribadu
[Chairman EFCC Republic of Nigeria]
NOTE; Contact the verification office as you were
instructed to the email above. This payment has a
limited time frame for funds dispatch. Your response
is expected within 7 working days of receiving this
notice*

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