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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:
  • "economic and financial crime commission" (This name is often mentioned in money recovery scams (re-scam): the real EFCC does not contact victims to offer to get their money back because that is near impossible. )
• 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.
  • zenithbankplc111@sify.com

Fraud email example:

From: UNITED NATIONS <cun40n@msn.com>
Reply-To: <unit100n@googlemail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:26:26 +0000
Subject: SCAMMED VICTIM/ US$ 250,000.00 BENEFICIARY.REF/PAYMENTS CODE:06654













ZENITH BANK COMPENSATION UNIT, IN AFFILIATION WITH
THE UNITED
NATIONS. Send acopy of your response to official
email: zenithbankplc111@sify.com

ATTN:Sir/Madam,

How are you today? Hope all is well
with you and family?,You may not understand why this mail came to you.

We
have been having a meeting for the passed 7 months which ended 2 days ago with
the then secretary to the UNITED NATIONS.

This email is to all the people
that have been scammed in any part of the world, the UNITED NATIONS have agreed
to compensate them with the sum of US$ 250,000.00
(Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand United
States Dollars)This
includes every foriegn contractors that may have not received their contract
sum, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or international
businesses that failed due to
Government problems etc.

Your name and
email was in the list submitted by our Monitoring Team of Economic and Financial Crime
Commission observers and this is why we are
contacting you, this have been agreed upon and have been signed.

You are
advised to contact Mr. Jim Ovia of ZENITH BANK
NIGERIA PLC, as he is our representative in Nigeria, contact
him immediately for your Cheque/ International Bank
Draft of USD$ 250,000.00 (Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States
Dollars) This
funds are in a Bank Draft for security purpose ok? so he will send it to you and
you can clear it in any bank of your choice.

Therefore, you should send
him your full Name and telephone number/your correct mailing address where you
want him to send the Draft to you.

Contact Mr. Jim Ovia immediately for
your Cheque:

Person to Contact Mr. Jim Ovia
Email: zenithbankplc111@sify.com.

Goodluck and kind regards,


Making the world
a better place


Mr. Ban Ki-Moon
Secretary (UNITED
NATIONS).
http://www.un.org/sg/

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