419 scam: office office <office----14070@att.net> BENEFICIARIES.REF/PAYMENTS

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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:
- "foreign payment department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
- "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.

Fraud email example:

From: office office <office----14070@att.net>
Reply-To: barclaysbnks01@live.com
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:13:55 -0800 (PST)
Subject: BENEFICIARIES.REF/PAYMENTS

SCAMMED VICTIM/ $250,000 BENEFICIARIES.REF/PAYMENTS CODE:06654 $250,000 USD.

This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the United Nations economics & financial crime commission west Africa region to pay 150 scam victims $250,000 USD (Two Hundred & fifty thousand United states Dollars) each. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount of $250,000 USD compensations funds.

On this faithful recommendations, I want you to know that during the last U.N.

meetings & EFCC west African region held at Cotonou, Benin Republic, it was alarmed so much by the world in the meetings for the lose of funds by various individuals to the scams artists operating all over the world today. In other to compensate victims, the U.N Body/EFCC is now paying 150 victims of this operators $250,000 USD each in accordance with the U.N. recommendations.

Due to the corrupt and inefficient Banking Systems in Benin Republic and West

Africa the payments are to be paid by Barclays bank London as corresponding paying bank under funding assistance by Continental bank of Africa for funds remittance.

According to the number of applicants at hand, 114 Beneficiaries has been paid,

half of the victims are from the United States, we still have more 36 left to be paid the compensations of $250,000 USD each. Your particulars was mentioned by one of the Syndicates who was arrested as one of their victims of the operations, you are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to him for any reason what so ever till they are all apprehended.

You can receive your compensations payments via any of this options you Choose,

DRAFT/CHEQUE PAYMENTS or WIRE TRANSFERS. I shall feed you with further realities

as soon as I hear from you and you are expected to contact us on this

Email:barclaysbnks01@live.com

Yours faithfully,

Mrs Diana Roland.

Foreign payment department

Barclays bank of London uk.

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