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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 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_ccibe2oo8@delfi.lv (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "drccibe010@hgskateshop.com" <drccibe010@hgskateshop.com>
Reply-To: dr_ccibe2oo8@delfi.lv
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:47:52 -0500
Subject: From: Dr. Christian C. Ibe. [Strictly Confidential]

Dear Sir,

My name is Dr. Christian C. Ibe, former Chief Accountant
(Retd) in the
Transport and Aviation Ministry here in Nigeria, West
Africa. Your
email contact address was made known to us through the
Internet on our desire to get a foreign honest/sincere
person who would like to cooperate/assist us to transfer
into any of his or her bank account an approved contract sum
of US$26.3M,which we inflated in our
Ministry before our retirements.

In line with due legal contract payment procedure here, the
Payment Approval Code Number:
FMTA/002006/VOL.1/26.3M/102/2008 has been approved/issued by
the new Honourable Minister to the Central Bank of Nigeria
for immediate release/payment of the outstanding contract
funds via the corresponding paying bank in London,hence we
want to liaise (work) with you to apply to the Ministry for
the issuance of letter of
release/payment of the funds (US$26.3M) into any of your
bank account via the paying bank in London without any atom
of legal risk.

Please note that every necessary arrangement have been
completed with
the Honourable Minister for the smooth/legal wire transfer
of the funds into any of your nominated bank account.

We are only waiting for your honest/sincere reply so that we
can inform you on the details and what to do next.

Reply here urgently please:- dr_ccibe2oo8@delfi.lv

Our regards,

Dr. Christian C. Ibe.
For and on behalf of my colleagues.
10th July 2008.

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