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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)
  • "abuja" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned 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.
  • +2348033358580 (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.
  • zenithbank.org@ommail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Ms Grace Johnson" <msgj9@biz.by>
Reply-To: msgj01@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:21:25 -0700
Subject: ZENITH BANK/UNITED NATIONS 2008 COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.


From: Dr Godwin Emefula.
Phone:+234-803-335-8580
Email: zenithbank.org@ommail.com

ZENITH BANK/UNITED NATIONS 2008 COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.

REF/PAYMENTS CODE:06654 $2.5MILLION USD.

This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United Nations
to Zenith Bank Lome-Nigeria to pay 100 Nigerian 419 scam victims $2.5Million
each,you are listed and approved for this payments as one of the scammed
victims,get back to me as soon as possible with a scanned copy of your
international passports or drivers license for identifications for the
immediate payments of your $2.5Million compensations funds.

On this faithful recommendations,I want you to know that during the last UN
meetings held at Abuja,Nigeria,it was alarmed so much by the rest of the
world in the meetings on the lose of funds by various foreigners to the
scams artists operating in syndicates all over the world today,in other to
retain the good image of the country,the president of the country is now
paying 100 victims of this operators $2.5Million USD each,Due to the corrupt
and inefficient banking systems in Nigeria,the payments are to be paid by
Zenith Bank Lome-Nigeria as corresponding paying bank under fundling
assistance by the Central Bank of Nigeria(C.B.N.).

According to the number of applicants at hand,84 beneficiaries has been
paid,half of the victims are from the United States,we still have more 16
left to be paid the compensations of $2.5Million each. Your particulars was
mentioned by one of the syndicates who was arrested in Lagos Nigeria/London
as one of their victims of the operations,you are hereby warned not to
communicate or duplicate this message to any body for any reason what so
ever,the US secret service is already on trace of the criminals.

For more vital information,please visit:
http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/news1jul.htm

You can receive your compensations payments via any of the both options you
choose, Account To Account Fast Wire Transfer or Atm Card Payment Mode,I
shall feed you with further modalities as soon as I hear from you,send a
copy of your response UN investigatiion Agent: unofffice@univision.com and
call me immediately you receive this urgent message.

Yours faithfully,
Dr Godwin Emefula.
Phone:+234-803-335-8580
Email: zenithbank.org@ommail.com

N/B: Please call me for your response.

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