419 scam: "Central Bank of Nigeria"<umevictorr@finance.com> Re: Confidential Information

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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:
- "processing fee" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
- ",500,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "dr. sanusi" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
- "executive governor" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
- "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.

Fraud email example:

From: "Central Bank of Nigeria" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <umevictorr@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:44:47 +0100
Subject: Re: Confidential Information

Hello,

I am Dr. Ume Victor, Personal Assistant to Dr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the Executive Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). I have urgent secret information, which will be of vital help to you. I cannot keep it further as my conscience reminds me of my duties, I believed in equity and fair play, my boss and some of his colleagues from several other ministries whom were assigned with the duty of releasing your funds which likely accrued from Lottery, contract/Inheritance, has conspired together to divert your funds to another account and the strategy they employed was by demanding several charges from you, all the demand are illegal just to frustrate you to abandon your funds. My boss is currently working with the finance minister, attorney general of the federation, Group managing director NNPC, alongside with commercial banks chief executives to perfect his evil activities. He has counterparts in almost every country like London, Spain, Holland, ETC.

This act will then open an avenue for them to tag your payment as unclaimed payment and will have it transfer to their own coded Account overseas. As a matter of fact, my boss (Sanusi Lamido Sanusi) the Executive Governor Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and his colleagues instructed me to change your payment details with the one they have just nominated for immediate transfer. They will frustrate you forever because they will never do the right thing since the quest for too much worldly gains has blinded their sense of reasoning i am in charge of crediting comptroller to infuse all those information but i am purposely delaying as my mindset does not accept such evil. I am presently with the entire foreign payment redialed disk, my boss is responsible for all the fake FBI letters Which he uses often to intimidate you with another email address, pretending to be FBI while is impersonated, please don't reply to such letters.

I wish to inform you that I have already dispatched your fund in an ATM Card. You can track your package with the website and tracking number below:

Website: http://iship.com/trackit

Tracking Number: EC932373096US

Meanwhile in your file here, it was noted that you have not pay for processing of your fund, you are hereby required to provide US$300.00 for the processing fee which you have not paid.

Your ATM Card will remain In-Transit until you pay the procession fee. And as soon as you provide the fee, your ATM Card containing US$1,500,000.00 (One Million, Five Hundred US Dollars) will be delivered to you 48 hours after you pay the fee.

Provide the below information:

Name:
Address:
Phone number:

Truly
Dr. Ume Victor,
Personal Assistant.

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