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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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Fraud email example:
From: "THELMA DAVIS" <thdaviscbn@pravda.ru>
Reply-To: thelmadavis001@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:21:42 -0800
Subject: PLEASE READ CAREFULY AND ACT AS INSTRUCTED
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*Central Bank of Nigeria
Wuse Face II,
Abuja - Nigeria
Office of the Auditor General
From The Desk Of:
Ms. Thelma A. Davis. {American}
Attention: Beneficiary,
I am Ms. Thelma A. Davis, an America Lady working as an auditor in Central
Bank Of Nigeria, I am Instructed to officially inform you that we have
verified your contract/Lotto /inheritance file and found out that why you
have not received your payment is because you have not fulfilled the
obligations given to you in respect of your contract/Lotto/inheritance
payment.
Secondly, we have been informed that you are still dealing with none
officials in the bank all in your attempt to secure the release of the fund
to you. We wish to advise you that such an illegal act like this has to stop
if you wish to receive your payment since we have decided to bring a
solution to your problem. Right now we have arranged your payment through
our SWIFT CARD PAYMENT CENTRE from European Union, which is the latest
instruction from the new elected president Mr. President, Alhaji Umaru Musa
Yara'dua (GCFR) Federal Republic of Nigeria.
This card center will send you an ATM card, which you will use to withdraw
your money in any ATM machine in any part of the world, but the maximum is
Twenty Thousand United States Dollars ($20,000.00) per day. So if you like
to receive your fund in this way, please let us know and send the following
information as listed below to:
1. Full name
2. Phone and fax number
3. Address were you want them to send the ATM card to
(P.O box not acceptable)
4. Your age and current occupation
We will forward your information to the director of ATM CARD payment officer
Rev. Fr John Cokker upon our receipt of the above information or, you call
+2348036622086 immediatly if you want to receive your fund back.
Note that the ATM card payment center was mandated to issue out
$2,300,000.00 as part payment for this fiscal year 2008 to you so bear with
us. Also for your information, you have to stop any further communication
with any other person(s) or office(s) to avoid any hitches in receiving your
payment. Note that because of impostors, we hereby issued you our code of
conduct, which is (ATM-1616) so you have to indicate this code when
contacting the card center by using it as your subject.
We anticipate your total compliance to this message immediately.
Yours sincerely,
Ms. Thelma A. Davis. {American}
Auditor General [CBN]*
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