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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:
  • "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "affidavit " (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing 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.
  • +447024019132 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • un123420009@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • bellomusaun2001@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "bello musa2000" <musa2000_bello@klikni.cz>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 15:09:10 -0700
Subject: CONTACT ALHAJI MUSA BELLOW URGENTLLY


* Un Office
Of Legal Affairs,
Security and
Investigation.
Millbank Tower **21-24
Millbank London
SW1P 4QH United KingdomCurently in
Nigeria(Special Duty)
**[image:
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ATTN:*
*RE-CHANGE OF ACCOUNT.
un123420009@yahoo.com
<http://us.f327.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?DMidv72_4834020_14166_425_65_0_1538_-1_0&YY–01&y5beta=yes&y5beta=yes&inc%&order wn&sortÚte&posor,bellomusaun2001@yahoo.co.uk*
*I am Mr MUSA BELLO the newly appointed Director United Nation Legal
Affairs,Security and Investigation, TO look into foreign outstanding overdue
payments i ran into your file and find out that your payments is outstanding
.*
**
*THE President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (OMARU MUSA YA" ADUA) and
his Decision Making Body, The Excutive Arms of the government, has directed
me to come down to Nigeria to Investigate your fund and to make sure that we
approve all outstanding debts owned to Foreign beneficiaries by the
goverment of Nigeria in this first quarter of this fiscal year 2007.*
**
*Note.; that the money in question is $35.5 million usd to be transfered.
this money * *was as a result of the over-invoicing of certain contracts by
officials of the Petroleum Corporation N N P C .With no one laying claims to
this over-invoiced amount. that the origine of the fund.*
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*This decision was taken based on the abnormalise and inability of the BANKS
in Nigeria to Release your fund into your bank account Whereby it was
discovered that some Directors in Central bank of NIGERIA being the Federal
Government of Nigeria were diverting foreign beneficiaries payment to
another account of their choice overseas. In view of this,during our
investigation i found out that an account was submitted to divert your
fund to a Germany account. *
**
*Below is the account submitted and I want you to confirm if you are aware
of the new development because we are about effecting payment to the account
stated bellow today.*
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*Beneficiary: CERSTIN WENGER SHENOUDA
Bank: FRANKFURTER BANK
A/C No.: 367840545
Code: 50050201*
**
*Finally, be informed that a payment instruction has been issued and
forwarded to the Treasury Department of the Federal Goverment Of Nigeria in
favour of you and your company for immediate release of your fund to the
account above without any further prejudice.But there is no way we can
approve the fund to your account without you confirming it if you have
changed your account for your fund to be transfer to the Beneficiary:
CERSTIN WENGER SHENOUDA BANK ACCOUNT IN GERMANY.*
**
*Contact me immediately for further clarification. to know if you have
giving instruction to tranfer your fund to the above account today. *
**
*On behalf of the entire management of United Nations, we are congratulating
you in advance and if you fail to contact this office on or before 24hrs
from now then we will now wire the fund to the German account.*

*THEREORE, YOU ADVISED TO IMMEDIATELY SEND TO US THE FOLLOWING INFORMATIONS
FOR US TO USE IN COUNTERING THE AFFIDAVIT WORN AGAINST YOU.*
**
*1). YOUR FULL NAME AND ADDRESS*
*2).YOUR PRIVATE TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS*
*3). YOUR OCUPATION AND AGE*
*KINDLLY SEND YOUR REPLY TO THIS EMAIL ID.,*
*un123420009@yahoo.com* <un123420009@yahoo.com>* or,
bellomusaun2001@yahoo.co.uk * *Thanks for your co-operation.*
*Yours faithfully
Mr MUSA BELLO * *+44 70 240 19 132*
*CONTACT ALHAJI MUSA BELLOW URGENTLLY*



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