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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:
  • "charles soludo" (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 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.
  • meke1212@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "DR.MS.THELMA DAVIS" <davis013@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: meke1212@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:29:05 +0100
Subject: ABOUT YOUR FUNDS IN CBN.


*ABOUT YOUR FUNDS IN CBN.
Attn:

I know that you might be surprise on this mail, but I am telling you the
truth. I know that it is against my official duty to release confidential
issue like this to an outsider. There is nothing I can do to help you beside
this; I am taking this bold step because of my belief as a Christian.

What I want to tell you is about your fund with the Federal Government of
Nigeria, there are a lot forces working against you right from the last CBN
Governor Chief Joseph Sanusi and the current Governor Prof. Charles Soludo,
they have been frustrating you by demanding upfront payment from you
constantly, If I tell you that they are using all these money you sent to
them to work against you, you might not believe it. But it is reality.

There is a way I can assist you get your fund without you paying any charges
to get your fund, it is risk but one have to take it, I have assisted one
woman from Mexico with it, it worked out though her fund was US$2.5m. What
you have to do is to open another bank account anywhere, if you can open it
in another place, it will be nice, but what you have to bear in mind Is that
you have to retransfer the fund to another account immediately you Confirmed
the fund in your account, I know why I want it this way.

If you want me to go ahead, let me know as soon as you get this mail and get
back to me through this very email address (**
meke1212@hotmail.com<http://us.mc368.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=meke1212@hotmail.com>)
so that I will be in better position to know what to do, you are also to
re-confirm your contract/inheritance amount to enable me cross check if it
is inline with what we have in our file.

Dr. Mrs. Thelma Davis.
KTT UNIT CBN *

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