419 scam: "Hammed Abbas"<hammedabbas1@yahoo.com> YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE / CONFIDENTIAL HIGHLY NEEDED

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "urgent assistance" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- "economic 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. )
- "(efcc)" (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. )
- "cotonou" (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.
- +2348023129987 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "Hammed Abbas" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <hammedabbas@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 23:26:15 +0100
Subject: YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE / CONFIDENTIAL HIGHLY NEEDED

Attn,

I am Mr Hammed Abass from Nigeria i am the personal assistance (P. A) of Mrs Cecilia Ibru who is the managing director of oceanic bank that was arrested two week ago for bank fraud sum of $17trillion USD with her group from other banks, they are Intercontinental bank, Africa bank ,sky bank and others and the case is going on here in Nigeria now to the extend that the central bank governor have give quick order to revoke all their license to operate as banker and she and her group were detained under government custody presently at Economic Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) Office further investigation till further notice.

My main purpose of contacting you is that i need your urgent assistance to arrive to Cotonou to meet me in republic of Benin west Africa to come and act as the bonafide beneficiary of sum of $80.8Million usd that was kept by my boss in the box at the security vault in Cotonou and declared the contents of the box as Gold accessories that belongs to foriegn investors from oversea and the security vault are not aware that the content of the box as money for security reason.

Furthermore if you are interested you are hereby to send me your full details with the scan copy of your international passport for the procurement of your identity card from the vaults office in our neighboring country Cotonou west Africa as the beneficiary of the box of money so that i myself will move from my country here in Nigeria and meet you face to face in Cotonou west Africa for the final receiving of the box of money from the vault office for final onward transfer of the fund through Eco BANK in Cotonou through bank transfer to your nominated account in your country bank to bank.

In conclusion your arrival to Cotonou in west Africa is very paramount important because without your presence here in Cotonou as a foreign investor from oversea ,the security vault will not attend to me or deliver the box to me as the personal assistance of my boss, that is why i need your urgent assistance to arrive to Cotonou before it will be too late and to avoid us to pay higher demurage on the collection day.

i will offer you 30% from the total fund for your time to come down to Cotonou to act as the owner of the fund without any problem.

The remaining balance of the fund will be use to invest in your country for our own security so that in future i can travel to meet you for final disbursement.

For more proof and to assure you that this my proposal is genuine so you are to search for more story of my boss through Google search, see below link.

http://www.compassnews.net/news/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26180:efcc-declares-cecilia-ibru-akingbola-wanted&catid=43:news&Itemid=63

I will be waiting for your quick response.

Sincerely,

Mr Hammed Abass,P. A
+234 8023129987.

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