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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)
• 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.
  • +2348026623847 (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.
  • dr.dankwambo012@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3adr.dankwambo012@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "dr.dankwambo Gazeta.pl" <dr.dankwambo@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: dr.dankwambo012@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:31:04 -0700
Subject: View The Attached File It Urgent


ATTN:BENEFICIARY,

YOUR IMMEDIATE INHERITANCE/CONTRACT PAYMENT

RE: PAYMENT OF YOUR OUTSTANDING DEBT VIA CERTIFIED INTERNATIONAL BANK

DRAFT

This is to inform you that the Presidency has stepped into the payment

of your contract / inheritance fund. The instruction to this Board to

authorized your payment was given by the President himself Alhirji

Umaru Musa Yar'Adua following intelligence report on contract payment

he received which revealed that the lower offices and department

including some departments of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) are

engaging in the practice of payment delays through unnecessary use of

bureaucratic office processes and imposition of unauthorized fees. This

apart has been allegations that some officials of NNPC and CBN

deliberately divert funds approved with the name of a beneficiary to

accounts that were not given by the known contractor after the due

processing and approval of such payment.

To avoid and curtail such, official misconduct and deliberate delay of

foreign contractors' payment under one flimsy reason or the other, the

President of the Country therefore mandated this office to raise

contractors' payment and ensure that such payments are received by the

contractor within a short period of five (5) days from the day of

notice. Based on the information contained in your contract files and

records submitted to us from NNPC, CBN, and FMF your name was in the

list of Category A contractors whose payments have been verified and

approved with the records indicating that your payment has long been

over due. The directive from the President based on all these findings

is that this office should make immediately uninterrupted payment of

your contract fund direct from the Federal Treasury. Other offices

including CBN earlier handling your payment has been advised to hand

over to this office to avoid duplication of efforts, though such

offices hesitate to let you know of this new development.

In respect of this, this office held a meeting with the representatives

of concerned government bodies during which your contract file and

other information of your payment were submitted. After going through

your file a lot of official irregularities, impending stop orders and

complexities surrounding the payment were discovered. This office and

the concerned bodies unanimously decided and approved that your

contract payment will be raised in Certified International Bank Draft.

The draft will be raised either in your name or in the name of your

Company as the beneficiary. As soon as the draft is raised and signed

off by you, you will be required to present the draft at your bank for

confirmation and crediting of fund into your account. This will take

3-5 days of depositing of draft in your bank.

Finally, I have tried reaching you by telephone but unsuccessful, I

will advise you to call me or send me a fax in regards to this, so that

I will intimate you more in regards to your contract payment. Reconfirm

your details to me so that I can verify that you are the genuine

beneficiary of the sum. Further details concerning your payment will be

given to you once you contact the under signed on

EMAIL:dr.dankwambo012@hotmail.com <EMAIL%3Adr.dankwambo012@hotmail.com>
,TEL;+234-802-662-3847
. This panel hereby uses this medium to congratulate you and heart

fully thank you for your patience and understanding during all this

years of delays on your contract fund.

Best regards,
mr. Dan Kwambo
Accountant General Of The Federal Republic Of Nigeria
TEL:+234-802-662-3847
E-MAIL :dr.dankwambo012@hotmail.com

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