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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:
  • "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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "modibotoure2 Gazeta.pl" <modibotoure2@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: mr.modibotoure1@y7mail.com
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 19:21:42 +0100
Subject: TOP SECRET


*Attn: Beneficiary,*

*My name is Mr.Modibo Toure, an accountant with Central Bank of Nigeria. I
secretly contacted you based on the information on my table from the
Chairman international Fund Monitoring committee with Economic Community of
West African States (ECOWAS.) for a review on a fund in your name with
African Government. *


*As such, we were giving instruction not to release this fund to you until
certain clarification is made. After much investigation on my side, it was
obviously ready that the fund dose not originally belongs to you which was
applied and instructed to be transferred to your account by an unknown
person with the help of some Government officials.*

* *

*I have confidently contacted you first to see if we can reason together and
get this fund transferred to your account for our own mutual benefits since
I am in position to give beneficial approval of this fund to you as the true
owner. Because the Chairman international Fund Monitoring committee with
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS.) is still waiting for my
confirmation to know if the fund is genuinely owned by you or not to
determine whether they are to confiscates the fund and return to the
Government treasury or not. *

* Let me know your stand in this regards.*


*NOTE: I WOULD WANT US TO HANDLE THIS TRANSACTION OUT OF OUR BANK FOR
SECURITY REASONS.*

*Regards,**
Mr.Toure Modibo.*

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