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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found 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.
  • +2347032323311
• 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.
  • miss.angelapowers@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "=?utf-8?q?Dr.=20Momoh=20Jibril=20Abass?=" <dr.momohjibrilabass@ymail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 11:08:01 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: URGENT


¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!Ahora puedes escribirme a:dr.momohjibrilabass@ymail.com



- Dear Sir, This mail is coming to you from the Desk of the Chairman, Debt Settlement Committee, Office of the President, of the Federal Government of Nigeria. We are sending you this mail because you are among the 35- foreign contractors who has been approved to receive their outstanding contract Payments for various contract services executed in Nigeria .Our mandate is to ensure that all the approved payments (35 contractors) must be paid urgently because this is the wishes of the new government in Nigeria that just took over the reins of power. So it is imperative that we discharge this obligation quickly so as to clear the back log of debts Inherited by the new Government. The new government is here to stamp out corruption and have sacked many officials whose hands are not clean and who are guilty of always asking for upfront fees/charges from foreign contractors. There this time around, all up fronts charges are waived. Also the transfer of the contract payment will not be from Nigeria but rather from our overseas bank - Barclays Bank - London by direct wiring to your bank account. We decided on this because the overseas banks and officials of their banks are transparent and professional. In view of the above, please send by email to Barclays Bank in London the following particulars of yours: Your name & address& phonenumber, your contract sum(s) & contract number(s) and your receiving bank account details. These are required by the bank for reconfirmation and verification purposes only. To contact the bank, please go through our Account Officer at the bank. Her name is Ms. Angela Powers and her email address is miss.angelapowers@yahoo.com Finally, I urge you to please also look through your file that is with you and make sure that you have all your contract documents intact in the file. This is necessary in case the bank may ask you to show them any of the documents for one reason or the other. In case you lack any or all of the contract documents, please let us know so that I can source them for you here. Please contact the account officer - Ms. Angela Powers immediately through her email address specified above. Thank you and do keepmeinformed.Yours Faithfully, Dr. Momoh Jubril Abass. Executive Secretary, DEBT SETTLEMENT COMMITTEE THE PRESIDENCY - FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA. Email: dr.momohjibrilabass@ymail.com TEL: +234 70 32 32 33 11

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