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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.
  • +2348067022589 (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.
  • mr.dan.kwambo.1@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3amr.dan.kwambo.1@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "mr.dan kwambo" <mr.dan.kwambo.92@me.by>
Reply-To: mr.dan.kwambo.1@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:59:37 -0700
Subject: YOUR IMMEDIATE INHERITANCE/CONTRACT PAYMENT


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:mr.dan.kwambo.1@hotmail.com<EMAIL%3Amr.dan.kwambo.1@hotmail.com>,TEL;+234-806-702-2589

. 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:+234-806-702-2589

E-MAIL:mr.dan.kwambo.1@hotmail.com <E-MAIL%3Amr.dan.kwambo.1@hotmail.com>

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